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The 

Parkingtonian System of Vibratory Intoning. 

Its Principles Simplified and Explained by 

The Founder, 

Sara Abbott Parkington, 

Assisted 

By one of the world's greatest mystics. 

APPENDED 

To this work are some little poems, culled 

From the many that have been written by 

One of the Authors. 



Denver, Colorado, November, Nineteen twenty-two. 

Copyrighted. All rights reserved. 

1922 



PREFACE. 

Improvement is the order of the age. There is 
a vast difference between that which we believe and 
that which we KNOW. If we undertook to incor- 
porate in book form all that we believe, we might 
write several volumes. But if we confined our- 
selves to that which we KNOW perhaps we could 
write it on a post card. This is because we do not 
KNOW anything that we cannot DEMONSTRATE. 
We may believe it with all our being, but if we are 
unable to demonstrate, it has not transcended the 
realm of belief and entered the realm of knowledge. 

The worth of anything is measured by results. 
The discarding of old and tried teachings should 
not be too hasty, but a fair and impartial trial 
should characterize our dealings with improve- 
ments sought to be introduced. 

The musical world will receive this work with a 
gasp of astonishment, because of its radical de- 
parture from older methods, but a thorough study 
of its principles and the intelligent application of 
the same for a short time, will convincingly demon- 
strate its superiority. 

"There is no ignorance so hard to overcome, as 
that which denies without investigation." 

—THE AUTHORS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



An extended acquaintance with the author 
of this work emboldens me to undertake an 
introduction. From observation, I am sure 
no method of voice culture and training could 
be more stable, direct and helpful than the 
system taught in these pages. 

Muscular effort becomes voluntary and not 
forced. Proper breathing is reduced to an 
art, while poise and confidence result from her 
method. 

From time immemorial, those versed in oc- 
cult lore and wisdom, have known and under- 
stood the value of proper breathing. They 
regarded man, and quite properly, as the micro- 
cosm of the macrocosm. Before you shall have 
finished the study of this book, you will have 
discovered truths and principles that stagger 



you with their simplicity. You will discover 
the secret meaning of the ancient custom of 
placing the words, "Know Thyself" over their 
temples of learning. 

The same laws, principles and truths which 
they employed are still imminent in the uni- 
verse, they are ours to discover, appropriate 
and use. 

An experience extending over almost twenty 
years has taught the founder of this system its 
real merit and value. Students that have come 
to her, with muscular contraction of the dia- 
phragm and throat, caused by improper train- 
ing, have in a few lessons found a freedom of 
movement, a flexibility of voice, a compli- 
mentary reserve of breath, and a poise they had 
dreamed of, but hardly hoped to achieve. 

The rapidity of your development will de- 
pend upon the degree of fidelity with which you 
prosecute your studies. With this brief in- 
troduction, we commit this work to your hands, 
commending it wholly upon its merits. 

— Phy lotus. 



Chapter I. 



FUNDAMENTALS. 

We accept as true the postulate that man is 
the microcosm of the macrocosm. Therefore 
we shall proceed from this as a starting point 
to acquaint you with the mystery of life. 

We shall first consider the Solar System 
from an exoteric point of view and then show 
you the esoteric or hidden meaning of it all. 
We trust that you will not confound the prin- 
ciples of Astrology as we shall try to teach you, 
with the modern dwaddle with which men pur- 
port to tell fortunes. We shall, by the help 
of the law of correspondence, show you plainly 
how each vital of the body is but a correspond- 
ent of some one of the planets in the Grand 
Man of the heavens and thus help you to grasp 

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and understand the application of the law of 
life. 

We recognize our physical sun as the center 
of our Solar system. From it radiates all 
light and life giving properties to the other 
planets. It is not within the scope or province 
of this little work to discuss the influence of 
light upon life or how indespensable it is to the 
sustenance of life, but assuming our student to 
be aware of this principle, we proceed to its 
correspondent in man, or the heart. Just as 
there obtains the circulation of light from the 
Solar sun throughout the entire system, so the 
heart is the fountain head of the circulation 
of the blood in the physical man, and the an- 
cients wrote the words, "The blood is the life 
thereof." If you could imagine what a catas- 
trophe would overtake our Solar system in 
the event that the sun was suddenly blotted 
out, then you can in a measure grasp what 
would occur to the physical body should the 
heart cease to function. 

As the sun is continually revitalizing the Solar 
system with the energy it is continually giving 
off or sending out, so the heart distributes the 
life giving fluid throughout the body, reviving 

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and revitalizing the different organs. As the 
sun itself is continually renewed in power and 
energy by the Self Existent or THAT of the 
universe, so the heart is renewed and vitalized 
by a certain energy or force we call spirit, and 
the breath is the medium through which this 
force or energy is transferred to the blood. 
Hence the Great Master of all law declared, 
"I am in the Father, and the Father in me." 
The "I" referred to by the Master is that 
something in the breath that is indespensable 
to the manifestation of organic life, and we 
call that something spirit. 

You will agree that you might exist for 
several days without eating, but how long 
would you survive without breathing? Then 
it follows that there must be something in the 
breath necessary for the sustenance of life, 
and, as we have noted, that something is spirit. 
It must be clear to you now, how this "I" or 
spirit is present in the breath you breathe. 
At another time this same Master said, "I am 
the true vine, my Father is the husbandman." 
With a little reflection you will clearly see how 
this "I" or spirit is present in the breath, and 

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how the breath is the husbandman of the "I" 
or spirit force. 

Then it follows that as you breathe in the 
breath you also breathe in the "I" or spirit 
contained in the breath. This teaches you how 
the vitalizing energy of the universe we call 
spirit, makes its enterance into your body. 
Now what to do with it? How may we in- 
telligently direct this force to the renewing of 
our youth and the rebuilding of our temple or 
body ? 

As has been observed the blood is the agent 
that carries to the uttermost parts of the body 
this life giving energy or force. Now it is 
necessary to follow a little closer just how this 
energy is transferred from the unfailing res- 
ervoir of the universe to out; bodies, or from 
the without to the within. Located just at the 
Pneuma-gastric nerve in the body, which in 
itself is located at the solar plexus, is a little 
nerve that discharges into the Pneuma-gastric 
nerve, and the end of this little nerve is shaped 
like the mouth of a fish. It is through this 
mouth that the blood transfers to the nerve 
force this energy that is breathed in with each 
breath. It is apparent to you now that we 

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must follow it through the nerve system to the 
different vitals of the body, this transference 
having been accomplished. 

The sun, or heart has now fulfilled its mis- 
sion, having through the medium of the blood 
delivered its precious cargo to the nerve man. 
Of course the heart exercises what may be 
termed a secondary influence now, in that it 
is responsible for the continued deliverance of 
this force. But this particular vital spark we 
now have under discussion has passed to the 
nerve man and it is our task to follow it in its 
journey ings. 

The planet Mercury is nearest the sun not 
only as to distance but in vital relation. The 
ancients called this planet the winged messenger 
of the gods, and symbolized it by a man with 
wings on his feet and in full stride as if 
running. 

The planet Mercury is said to rule the stom- 
ach and bowels, but more specifically does it 
rule the solar plexus. Even as the planet is in 
the closer relation to the solar sun, so the 
mercury, or solar plexus in each of us sustains 
the closer relation to the heart, for the heart 
with its intricate system of veins and arteries 

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is the twin brother as it were of the nerve sys- 
tem, or- nerve man within us. And as the 
heart is the head of the circulatory system, even 
so is the solar plexus the head or center of the 
nerve man. Of course there is a Cerebro- 
spinal man within each of us that is absolutely 
indespensable to our manifestation as a living 
organic form, but the very center of all nerve 
energy is found in the solar plexus. And as 
the planet was likened to the winged messenger 
of the gods, so this center is the winged mess- 
enger within us, notifying us when the natural 
functions of the body are interrupted or dis- 
turbed. 

We now, in conscious thought seize this 
vital spark as it emerges from this fish-shaped 
mouth and follow it through the semi-lunar 
(or half moon) nerve to the spine where it 
makes its entrance at the thirteenth vertebra. 
We continue to follow it until it reaches the 
Medulla oblongata, or more particularly the 
Arba-Vitae, meaning, the tree of life. We 
now direct this spark in thought to the solar 
plexus and from thence to the vocal chords 
in the throat. 

This energy now changes color and comes 

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under the direction of the planet Venus. To 
the ancients Venus was the Goddess of love 
and its influence included all that is generally 
understood by the term. The law of corre- 
spondence fixes the kidneys and all the throat 
with the exception of the vocal chords as com- 
ing under the rulership of the venus in the 
body. If the scope of this work permitted, 
we could by elaborate process show you how 
this is absolutely true relative to the human 
body. Suffice to know that it is a fact and by 
the same process you now direct this vital 
spark from the vocal chords to the kidneys and 
back to the throat, embracing the thyroid 
glands, salavary glands, in fact all, except the 
vocal chords as has been noted. 

This completes the reign of the venus in the 
body and it is now transferred to Mars where 
the color again changes. As this planet was 
the god of war, hasty and impetuous, fiery and 
destructive, except when intelligently directed, 
so the mars in the body is of the same nature. 
This is why the planet Mars by the law of 
correspondence rules the genitals or generative 
organs in the body. You now in thought direct 
this spark to the genitals of the body over- 

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looking none of the functions of these organs, 
but at the same time keeping the thought free 
from everything of a destructive nature. The 
force of Mars unbridled and uncontrolled is 
the most destructive energy that we have to 
contend with in the flesh. Hence the necessity 
of refraining from impregnating this vital 
spark with anything of a destructive nature. 
For, we may as well observe at this point as 
further along in these lessons, this vital spark 
is susceptible to the slightest movement of 
thought and delivers to that part of the body 
to which you direct it, the exact character of 
thought with which it is burdened. 

This spark now passes to the rulership of 
the jupiter in the body and again changes color. 
As the planet Jupiter was the lord of finance 
with the ancients, so it sustains the same corre- 
spondence in the body, in an esoteric sense rul- 
ing the stomach and intestines. You follow the 
same process in thought and direct this vital 
spark from the genitals to the stomach and in- 
testines, revitalizing and imparting to them new 
life. It is the office of the stomach to receive 
that which we eat and drink for the sustenance 
of the physical man. But it will soon become 

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apparent to you that there is vastly more in 
proper breathing for the sustenance of physical 
life than in what you eat. 

The mastery of this marvelous truth enabled 
the Great Master to continue his fast for forty 
days, confounding the doctors in the temple 
and demonstrating this mighty principle. The 
lesser intestines discharge into the larger 
and it is just as necessary that they be 
kept in a healthy condition as it is that the re- 
ceiving end be cared for. The jupiter of the 
body selects that which can be appropriated 
for use in the body and consigns the rest to 
oblivion. This is the sense in which the Jupi- 
ter in the body is the money changer trying to 
balance and equalize our indescretions in 
matters of diet. 

This energy or spark now passes to the 
rulership of Saturn. The influence of Saturn 
is cold, crystalizing and hardening. So the 
saturn in the body exercises the same influence. 
You now in conscious thought direct this spark 
to the spleen in the body. Here this energy 
again changes color and revitalizes this organ, 
whose office it is to lift the red corpuscle of 

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the blood to that of the white, revivifying and 
revitalizing it and , sending it on its journey 
throughout the body. By intense thought you 
may at this point catch a glimpse of how to 
rebuke and overcome the presence of tuber- 
culosis in the body. In addition to ruling the 
spleen, the saturn in the body also rules the 
bones. Out of the soft spongy bones of the 
body, and particularly the ribs, comes that sub- 
stance out of which nature manufactures the 
red corpuscle of the blood at the heart. The 
corpuscle is not the life, but the carrier of the 
life principle or vital spark that you are now 
dealing with. That is it is the agent that 
carries it up to this point, or spleen. A lack 
of red corpuscles in the blood is indicated in 
all tubercular patients. Then is it not the logi- 
cal thing to do, to revivify and revitalize this 
substance in the bones ? How ? By directing 
this vital spark all through the opening in the 
bones throughout the entire body, thus supply- 
ing the heart with the substance necessary to 
manifest the red corpuscle. Give much at- 
tention to this office and function of the saturn 
in the body. 

This spark now passes to the rulership of 

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Uranus, having fulfilled its mission in the body 
thus far. The planet Uranus, was known as 
the mystic planet and ruled everything of a 
secret nature. So the uranus in the body ful- 
fills the same function, it rules the lungs. 

Just how the blood is areoated by the lungs, 
just how this vital spark is breathed into the 
body by their functioning, just how this spark 
is transferred from the breath to the blood are 
all matters of mystery to man, he admits the 
truth of the statement, but the exact modus 
operandi is unknown. That it is done, may 
be demonstrated by a succession of experiments 
that the scope of this work does not permit us 
to elaborate. 

Having delivered that part of itself that 
rightfully belongs to the uranus of the body, 
this spark now passes to the rulership of Nep- 
tune. Up until the year nineteen one Neptune 
was limited to the rulership of the sign Pisces 
or the ocean. Since entering the Aquarian 
age this planet not only rules the ocean but 
also the sign Aries or the head, while the planet 
Mars, formerly ruling Aries takes its rightful 
place in the sign Scorpio which sign rules the 
genitals. 

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The influence of this planet is of an occult 
nature, governing those things that touch the 
occult side of our existence. Let no one be 
alarmed at the use of the word "Occult", in 
its last analysis it simply means "The natural." 
So the neptune in our bodies rules the liver. 
When this vital is absolutely healthy and nor- 
mal, as a rule the entire body is in a healthy 
condition. This is because of the close rela- 
tion of this organ not only to the physical, but 
to the mental man. It is sometimes referred 
to as the filter of the physical man. In a 
vastly larger sense it is the filter of the mental 
man. All philosophy, all experience to the 
contrary, learn that the normal color of the 
liver is a GOLDEN YELLOW. We know 
that you will say that this is contrary to all 
experience, and we answer, so is the perfect 
man contrary to experience and is not per- 
fection the goal you seek? 

As has been observed this organ is sensitive 
to the character of each thought we indulge. 
It is well for you to know that each thought 
vibrates at its own rate of motion and color 
to which the character of thought belongs. 
Thoughts of material money or finance vibrate 

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to a certain shade of green while thoughts of 
sex vibrates to a certain shade of red. Now 
ask any painter how he would obtain a red- 
brown or brick dust color, and he will tell you 
by mixing the red and green. 

What two things occupy the minds of men 
more than anything else? Sex and finance. 
Red and green. What color do the mixture of 
these two colors produce ? Red-brown. What 
color is the liver of the average man? You 
have the answer. Hence it behooves us to 
carefully sift the thoughts we indulge and per- 
mit to register in our consciousness, particu- 
larly during the time we are taking these ex- 
ercises in breathing. Hence if you would re- 
vitalize and renew the neptune or liver in the 
body, in consciousness direct this vital spark 
to the liver burdened with thoughts of strength, 
vim, vigor and vitality and the result will 
astonish you beyond words. 

This force or energy is now delivered to 
the rulership of the Moon. The ancients re- 
garded the Moon as the ruler of the sign Can- 
cer, which sign rules the breasts in man. This 
is true, but in an occult sense it rules the brain 
also. The Moon gives off a reflected light, 

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that is light from the solar sun is reflected to 
this planet by way of the Moon. 

The brain in the skull is the organ commonly 
regarded as the seat of thought, and this is 
true of the conscious or outer mind. But the 
real seat of thought is in the silence which we 
reach through the solar plexus, this being the 
home of the intuitive mind or KNOWER in 
each of us. It is through this center that we 
receive all illumination. Whatever degree of 
illumination the brain in the skull possesses, 
or rather mind functioning through this organ, 
is reflected or communicated to it from the 
fountain head of all knowledge located in each 
of us at the solar plexus. Hence this center 
may be likened unto the solar sun, while the 
brain in the skull is likened unto the Moon. 
He who would establish conscious communica- 
tion between this center of light which is in each 
of us, and the conscious mind that functions 
through the brain, will read much that is here 
written between the lines and finally overcome. 



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Chapter II. 



COLOR. 

So much reference has been made to color in 
the foregoing that it seems pertinent to here in- 
troduce a short exegesis concerning the same. 
There are but five cardinal colors, all teaching 
to the contrary. Outside the five basic colors, 
all others are shades or blends. 

The aura of the infant is made up of these 
five, but as man grows older and indulges in 
indescretions and transgressions of the law 
these colors are caused to blend and form dif- 
ferent shades. The highest rate of motion in 
color on the earth given off by the mental 
man is the golden yellow. When this color is 
apparent in the aura, it is conclusive evidence 

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that the thoughts of the thinker are of Divine 
love. Divine love is the ABSENCE of ALL 
emotion, the presence of ALL good. Hence 
the thoughts when reflecting this color are 
wholly constructive and good. 

The next rate of motion in color is the blue, 
and this embraces all shades from the deep, 
dark indigo blue up to the pale blue of the sky. 
When this is present in the aura you may know 
that the thoughts are esthetic, enobling, up- 
lifting, constructive and helpful. 

Next in rate of motion is the orange, and 
to you who are seeking health it is well for 
you to give special attention to what is herein 
written, as we shall elaborate this to some ex- 
tent. Except for the orange ray from the 
solar sun there would be no manifestation of 
physical life, neither animal or vegetable. The 
ancients understood this wonderful truth and 
governed themselves accordingly. They knew 
that this ray from the sun was strongest just 
as the disc of the sun begun to show above the 
eastern horizon. Therefore it was their cus- 
ton to rise early, face the east, and as the sun 
begun to show, they began their seven Pranas, 
or deep breaths. This ceremony lasted until 

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the disc of the sun swung clear of the horizon. 
They held the thought as they breathed, they 
were actually breathing into their bodies the 
orange ray, or life ray from the sun. They 
knew that this ray gradually grew weaker and 
weaker in its influence as the sun ascended the 
heavens, until by the time it reached the meri- 
dian directly overhead, its influence had dis- 
appeared altogether, consumed by the caloric 
or heat ray from the same orb. Perhaps you 
will discover here the hidden meaning in the 
words of the Psalmist, when he said, "Save 
me from the destruction that wasteth at noon- 
day." 

They knew that this ray again asserted its 
influence in the afternoon but was never so 
strong as at sunrise. They also understood 
that this ray gradually weakened until sunset, 
when it disappeared altogether until the next 
sunrise. Physicians may not know why they 
lose seventy-six per cent of their patients be- 
tween noon and midnight, and fifty-four per 
cent of this seventy-six per cent between sun- 
down and midnight, but they do, and it is be- 
cause of the loss of the orange ray, sustainer 
of physical life. "The lips of the wise are 

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sealed except to those having the ear of under- 
standing." 

Next to the orange ray in rate of motion is 
the green. This has two general divisions. 
There is a pea green and a bottle green. The 
pea green indicates through the aura that the 
thoughts are either of a social or domestic 
nature. Thoughts concerning social engage- 
ments or social affairs. The bottle green in- 
dicates that the thoughts are of a financial 
character. Money or its equivalent. Men 
may not know why they print their money on 
green paper but they do. You will better un- 
derstand the words of the Psalmist now when 
he says, "He maketh me to lie down in green 
pastures/ ' Not that he expected to go out and 
lie down in some cow pasture, but "I shall not 
want", that is I shall know no limitation, be- 
cause I will think in harmony with the law. 

Next to the green in rate of motion is the 
red, and this has two general divisions that are 
in turn sub-divided. There is an angry red: 
when the thoughts are latent concerning anger 
the aura reflects a dark wine color, when 
excited and intense the aura becomes a fiery 
red. When the thoughts are passive concern- 

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ing sex the aura is a scarlet color, when ex- 
cited and intense the aura is a crimson color. 
We will not quote it here, but turn to the first 
chapter of Isaaiah and read the eighteenth 
verse and you will catch a glimpse of our 
meaning. 

Of course the student will not expect an 
exhaustive treatise on this subject in this 
little work, but enough is given to assist the 
earnest seeker to prosecute their studies until 
they shall master the secret of color. 

It is well to state here that each sound has 
its individual color, and each color has its own 
individual sound. Eventually the student will 
come to the place where they will see sound 
and hear color. This is the state reached by 
John the Revelator when he said, "I turned 
to SEE the voice that spake with me." You 
have gone into rooms that just seemed to grate 
on your nerves. You had no particular reason 
but a spirit of restlessness approaching irrati- 
bility would seize and cling to you until you 
left the room. This was because the inhar- 
mony of color in the room produced a discord 
of sound that grated on your nerves though you 
heard nothing audible. And why should it 

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grate on the nerves? Study again the change 
in color manifested by that vital spark as it 
progressed from one organ to the other and 
you will find your answer. 

Again you have entered rooms that seemed 
so restful to you that you wanted to linger 
almost ' indefinitely. This was because the 
color scheme was so nearly perfect that it har- 
monized with your nerve man and you ex- 
perienced a calm and restful feeling. 

You perhaps, have read or heard the state- 
ment that the "Planets incline, but do not 
compel." This is absolutely the truth. We 
rule the planets, by ruling their correspondents 
in our bodies. We rule their correspondents 
in our bodies by and through the mastery of the 
art of breathing in harmony with the law of 
color. 



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Chapter III. 



HARMONY. 

As there must be harmony in color so there 
must be harmony in sound, and also there 
must obtain a harmonious relation between 
each individual and the law governing physical 
life. The physical organism being the instru- 
ment through which we manifest, it is but 
natural that the physical should come first in 
consideration. The Great Master understood 
this principle. When His disciples came to 
Him inquiring about the law of supply, He 
chose three illustrations, two from the animal 
and one from the vegetable kingdom. In this 
teaching He made an effort to teach them the 
law of harmony that must exist between each 
individual and the law governing the physical 

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realm. He called their attention to the spar- 
rows and the ravens, how they did not gather 
into barns or lay up store, yet they were pro- 
vided for. 

He closed His observations on this point uj 
calling their attention to the lily in the follow- 
ing words : "Consider the lilies of the field, 
how they grow, they toil not neither do they 
spin, yet even Solomon in all his glory was 
not arrayed like one of these" * * * "But 
seek ye first the kingdom of God and His 
righteousness and all these things shall be 
added unto you." 

By close observation of the language em- 
ployed by the Master, you will discover the 
error of the average teacher of today. They 
have had us considering the lily, which of 
course, is a thing of beauty. Also they have 
had us seeking a kingdom of a visionary 
nature, intangible and elusive. The Master 
had as well said consider a thistle how it grows 
as to have chosen the lily. The great truth 
He sought to teach was to consider the lily 
HOW it grows. 

It grows because the roots are in the ground 
and the stalk upward. The rains fall on it, 

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the dews moisten it, the sun gives it light and 
it grows, expands, develops and unfolds. Now 
we pull up the lily and turn the roots upward 
stnd the stalk downward, and the lily withers 
and dies. Why? It is the same earth, same 
air, same fire from the sun, same dew and rain, 
but it dies, because it is out of harmony with 
the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. 

The signs of the zodiac embrace these four 
elements. Certain it is that we made our ad- 
vent into this world under some one of these 
signs, and just as certain does our sun in pro- 
gressed motion occupy some one of these signs 
right now. Whether it be earth, air, fire or 
water depends on your date of birth, for the 
sun advances one degree each year. 

Now the injunction is to "Seek first the 
kingdom." The word, kingdom, implies a 
dwelling place or a place to live. The King- 
dom of Great Britain is not her people, the 
people inhabit the kingdom. So your physical 
body is your kingdom, your dwelling place, 
and your first duty is to see that it is in har- 
mony with the physical law reigning in this 
realm. It must be evident that as the physical 
body is our medium or vehicle of expression, 

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it is the first thing to receive our attention, 
and so the Great Master taught. 

We know there are schools in the world 
whose teachings utterly ignore the physical 
body, but they are in evident error as appears 
from the words of the Greatest of all Great 
Masters. But again, if further proof were 
needed concerning His stressing the importance 
of the physical body, consider His words: "I 
am the true vine and My Father is the hus- 
bandman. * * * As the branch cannot 
bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, 
no more can ye, except ye abide in Me." To 
fully grasp the meaning of His words here, 
it is necessary for you to understand that you 
are an epitome of the Master and His twelve 
disciples. In other words they are all repre- 
sented in you. 

Your physical body is made up of the fol- 
lowing : A bony man, muscular man, veinous 
man, arterial man, lymphatic man, nerve man, 
crebro-spinal man, liver man, sympathetic man, 
skin man, conscious man and sub-conscious 
man. Then you have that mystic thirteenth, 
or life current within vou which is master of 
them all. The names of the twelve disciples 

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chosen by the Master, traced to their root 
meaning have reference to some one of the 
twelve men of the body. Now His words 
become plain. It is equivalent to this mystic 
life current within . lis saying to the other 
twelve men of the body, " You cannot bear 
fruit except you abide in this me that is made up 
of all the men in the body." 

The loss of the physical body is the Great 
Transgression, the unpardonable sin. The 
earnest seeker will now read the entire nine- 
teenth division of the Psalms, especially noting 
that the writer makes no use whatever of per- 
sonalities, but confines himself to the discus- 
sion of worlds, spheres and planets and their 
influence. He admits that they warn him 
and by understanding and obeying the law he 
escapes the Great Transgression. 

Harmony is heaven, discord is hell. The 
word, heaven, and harmony come from the 
same root, and we have long since learned 
that heaven is a condition and not a place. 

That perfect and exact harmony obtains be- 
tween all the worlds, suns and spheres with 
which we are acquainted is evident. Comets 
rushing to and fro through the system provoke 

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no apparent discord. Then is it not logical 
to assume, that if the Self-existent was so 
careful and painstaking with the home would 
It not be just as particular about the tenant? 
In other words, if such harmony, rhythm and 
splendor characterize the dwelling place, would 
not the Self-existent see to it that man was 
just as harmoniously and perfectly constructed? 
We cannot go beyond authentic history, but 
certain it is that so far as we have an authentic 
record our solar system has maintained the 
same exact and marvelous harmony that ob- 
tains today. 

This then, must be the outcome or result of 
design or purpose. This being true is it not 
safe to assume that the same idea of design 
and purpose was employed in the manifesta- 
tion of the physical man ? Then if inharmony 
obtains in man it is not the result of original 
design or pupose, but because man, endowed 
with a will and power to think, "Sought out 
many evil inventions." 

Wherever inharmony exists within the body 
it is the result of transgression. Many people 
in the world take the position that because 
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from indulging in things regarded as immoral, 
pay their honest debts, and so far as they know 
follow the golden rule, that they are unjustly 
afflicted. Fatal mistake. They may be all 
they claim to be, but they are "Straining at 
a gnat and swallowing a camel." In other 
words they are giving very close and precise 
attention to their OUTWARD deportment 
without the slightest regard to their own physi- 
cal bodies and are just "Kicking against the 
pricks." 

As well expect a six cylinder motor to de- 
liver one hundred per cent efficiency with one 
or two cylinders missing, as to expect the body 
to faithfully and perfectly perform its func- 
tions with some of the "Planets" or organs 
overloaded and abused. Before you can possi- 
bly understand or correctly apply what is to 
follow in this book, it is imperative that you 
master the foregoing. 



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Chapter IV. 



GENDER. 

It is our purpose in this chapter to show con- 
clusively to the student that there is but one 
thing in the universe and not TWO. To show 
that it is not diverse but as we rightfully say, 
universe. There is but one principle imminent 
in the universe and we call it sex, and for the 
sake of convenience divide it into the mascu- 
line and the feminine genders. Everything 
we cognize, manifest or unmanifest, visible or 
invisible is the fruitage of this principle in 
action on some one plane of the kingdom. If 
we descend to the very lowest rate of motion 
or life, among the rocks and minerals we find 
that this principle is active there. True that 
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one inhalation and exhalation, but nevertheless 
they breathe. 

And, there is an affinity between metals, 
the study of which fills one with wonder. 
Note the affinity that obtains between quick- 
silver and gold. On our plane of understand- 
ing we call this same principle, love. If, with 
an experienced prospector you undertook to 
search the hills for gold and came to a great 
dyke of quartz and without further investiga- 
tion wanted to dig, the prospector would laugh 
at you. When you inquired the cause of his 
merriment he would tell you in his parlance 
that it was "Bull" quartz. 

You answer, "Suppose it is? It is quartz 
isn't it?" He would tell you that it was 
the father lode and carried no APPARENT 
values. He may not know why he tells you 
that he is looking for the mother lode, but he 
does know that when he finds it he will find 
the values, for the feminine principle is for- 
ever the principle that manifests or brings to 
fruition the values of the masculine. The 
father lode has a value but it takes the feminine 
lode to bring it to manifestation. 

When you ascend to the next highest divis- 

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ion of the kingdom, among the plants, herbs, 
trees, vegetables and flowers you find that this 
same principle obtains. The masculine prin- 
ciple pollinizes but the feminine bears the bloom 
and the fruit. 

Ascending to the animal division of the 
kingdom you find this same principle apparent, 
running throughout the lower animals as well 
as in the highest type. 

Rising to the next highest division of the 
kingdom you find this principle apparent in 
the mental kingdom. Mind is the masculine 
element, projecting the pictured word _ or 
thought, while thought substance is the fem- 
inine, receiving the indentation or matrix pro- 
duced by the projected word or thought from 
the mind. The indentation or matrix thus 
produced is impregnated with the life principle 
of mind and the seed or thought planted in this 
thought substance must produce a harvest in 
harmony with the character of seed or thought 
sown. "As ye sow so also shall ye reap." 

It is easy for us to understand that when we 
prepare a piece of ground for sowing and then 
plant wheat, we fully expect a harvest of wheat 
from the mother earth. Strange that we em- 

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ploy the feminine or word "Mother" relative 
to the earth is it not? We expect wheat and 
are not disappointed. Why? Because the 
elements entering into the manifestation are 
ignorant as to whether we planted wheat or 
corn, but they do just the one thing they were 
established to perform, THEY OBEY THE 
LAW OF THEIR BEING. And the law of 
their being is that like begets like. They 
give back in character a harvest in keeping or 
harmony with the character of seed planted. 

This same principle obtains in the mental 
kingdom. You cannot indulge thoughts bf 
failure, disappointment, sickness, misery, woe, 
want, limitation, disease, in fact any thought 
of a destructive nature, and expect to reap a 
harvest of success, health, happiness, prosper- 
ity, strength, wisdom, knowledge and under- 
standing. For "As it is above so below." 
That is just as the kingdom below the mental 
acts under precise and exact law, even so does 
the kingdom above. Then the Wise Man was 
right when he said, "As a man thinketh in his 
heart, so is he." Not the physical heart, the 
head of the circulatory system, but the heart 

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shaped brain at the back of the skull which we 
call the cerebellum. 

As the physical heart is the head of the cir- 
culatory system, even so is this heart in the 
skull the head of the thought or mental man. 
If the stream of blood in the body is polluted 
and sluggish it is reflected in the health of the 
physical man. So if the stream of thought 
through the heart in the skull is contaminated 
with the element of destruction, it can but re- 
flect the condition. Do not confound this 
teaching with certain cults that stress the men- 
tal to the neglect of the physical. Affirma- 
tions and denials will not serve you except to 
confuse you. The teaching of the Great 
Master on this point was emphasized to His 
disciples when they asked Him regarding this 
very question. He answered, "Ye have heard 
it said of old time, resist the devil and he will 
flee from you, but I say unto you, RESIST 
NOT EVIL." Can you imagine the greatest 
of all great teachers admonishing His disciples 
not to resist evil? 

He understood that the law of non-resist- 
ance was the strongest resistance in the uni- 
verse. Suppose there is an occurence that sug- 

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gests an evil or destructive thought to you. 
Do you flee from it? Certainly not. Do you 
resist it with a lot of useless affirmations? 
Certainly not. Why? Because you LET IT 
PASS. You refuse it recognition with your 
conscious mind. Do you not see that when 
you begin to flee from it or to resist and fight 
it, you have recognized something to fight or 
flee from ? Is it not clear to you now that you 
invest the thing with reality, or recognize its 
existence by your very act of affirming or 
denying, else why affirm or deny that which 
is not ? 

Five thousand years ago the Chinese said, 
"You may not be able to keep the birds from 
flying over your heads, but you need not per- 
mit them to build nests in your hair." Plain- 
ly, you may not be able to keep a destructive 
thought from occuring to you but you DO 
NOT HAVE TO ENTERTAIN IT. If you 
do entertain it and permit it to register in your 
consciousness it is because you will do it. Re- 
member that the character of seed or thought 
you indulge forecasts the character of the 
harvest. 

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principle of sex obtains even there. The lan- 
guage of the Record is this, "Let US make 
man in OUR image, and after, (afterwards) 
in our likeness." The personal pronoun does 
not occur in our accepted translations whether 
you take the King James, The Revised, The 
Septauagent, The Vulgate, The Upanishads, 
The Upashastras or the Vedas, the translation 
is forever US and OUR. 

This is in harmony with the account as we 
read it. In beginning the "Spirit of the Self- 
Existent moved upon the face of the waters, 
but HE breathed into his nostrils." The 
Spirit is the feminine while the Holy Pheuma 
or Holy Breath is the masculine element of 
the God-head. In another chapter we discuss 
the "I" and the "Father" of the God-head. 
Read it closely. 

Now if the fountain head of all that is, is 
dual, in that it is masculine and feminine, and 
if the law be true that like begets like, then all 
that proceeds from that fountain head must 
partake of that duality. Hence we have the 
masculine and feminine in the God-head, in 
the mental, animal, vegetable and mineral 
kingdom, and this one principle is all that 

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there is in the universe, all else is a manifesta- 
tion of this principle in action on some one of 
these planes. 

Beginning with the masculine sign, Aries, 
each alternate sign is masculine, and the re- 
mainder feminine. There are planets whose 
influence are masculine and others that are fem- 
inine. The masculine planets rule the mascu- 
line elements of fire and air, while the feminine 
in influence rule the feminine elements of earth 
and water. 

Also there are major and minor planets. 
Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn and Neptune are 
known as major planets, while Mercury, Ven- 
us, Mars and the Moon are known as minor 
planets and all rule some one of the elements 
of earth, air, fire or water. 

If Vibration is motion, and indicates the 
presence of life or force, then the rate of Vi- 
bration or motion must indicate the degree in 
which this force or power is present. Obser- 
vation teaches and science proves, that it takes 
more power to produce a minor sound than it 
does to produce a major. That is the force 
producing sound must move against a greatei 
resistance to occasion what we term a minor. 

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This is why you will find the minor planets 
nearest the sun. The path followed by their 
orbits offers a greater resistance by virtue of 
their close proximity to this orb. The resist- 
ance is greater because they pass through fields 
of intenser light and heat, also they pass 
through greater gravitational fields. It is also 
true that the specific gravity of the minor 
planets is far greater than that of the majors, 
drawing on the sun for greater power to hold 
them in equipoise. 

Just as these planets harmonize with the 
signs they rule as to gender, so do they har- 
monize in sound and color. Suppose you spin 
an ordinary wooden top at such a rate of motion 
that it gives off a sound as a shriek ? In your 
imagination cause it to vibrate faster and all 
sound is lost to the ear, because it is vibrating 
so fast we cannot register the sound in con- 
sciousness. 

Then think of a mass like this earth, that has 
a speed of about eighteen and one-half miles 
per second at the equator, and you can imagine 
the sound produced. The only reason we do 
not hear it is because we have not risen high 
enough in our own rate of motion or vibra- 

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tion. The fabled music of the spheres becomes 
a Divine reality and the ancient writer was 
right when he referred to the time "When the 
morning stars sang together/' 

Now as there are major and minor planets 
in the heavens so there are major and minor 
planets or organs in the body, the analogy also 
holds good as to sex, but as an extensive 
knowledge of anatomy is necessary to under- 
stand our meaning, the scope of this work 
does not permit such an exhaustive treatise. 
If you master what is herein written and de- 
sire further enlightenment on these deeper 
things of life, if worthy, you may find our lodge 
on the northwest shores of America and follow 
the path to illumination. No need to inquire 
who or what we are, or to ascertain our location. 
You might pass through it daily and never 
suspect its character. Suffice to know that it 
is not near a large city. 

But to continue our discourse : It is de- 
clared that makers of the violin were two hun- 
dred years in discovering the truth that they 
got the fuller, richer and better tone by match- 
ing the masculine and feminine woods in the 
back of the instrument. Some dispute this 

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statement, but the greatest artists of earth 
agree that the principle is true. 

This principle is true and can be demonstra- 
ted, that when you shall have so mastered the 
art of breathing and intoning you will be able 
to speak or sing with such ease, grace and 
power of expression that it will astonish you 
and confound your critics. Just as the planets 
of the heavens vibrate in harmony, you will be 
able to vibrate each organ of your body in 
harmony with the tone you seek to produce, 
and the result will be a perfect blending of 
tone in sound and color. 

A volume could be written on the influence 
and power of gender, but enough has been 
given here for the student who seeks to excel. 



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Chapter V. 



LOVE. 



It will no doubt appeal to the student as 
unusual, that a chapter on love, should be in- 
troduced in a work whose primary aim is to 
simplify and teach the art of Vibratory inton- 
ing. But a close survey of what is here written 
will demonstrate to you the necessity for a 
correct understanding of this wonderful prin- 
ciple. 

You speak of free love to an average assem- 
bly, and instantly their thought is o<f free 
LUST. Confounding the false with the true, 
mistaking the Ignus Fatus for the real, the 
shadow for the substance. Let it be forever 
understood that in the highest meaning of the 
term, LOVE never seeks an expression on the 

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physical plane through the avenue of sex. 
Lust does. 

Know this tremendous truth, there may exist 
unquestioned devotion, unwavering fidelity and 
stainless affection, without the slightest sem- 
blance of LOVE. It is an established fact that 
like begets like and also that like attracts like. 
Now suppose that your dearest friend was 
called suddenly to a distant city on account 
of the critical illness of some one of their 
family. You help them to get ready for the 
trip and then adjure them to keep you posted 
as to their progress. You ask them to wire 
you when they reach a certain point on the 
journey, and then wire again when they reach 
another stage, and so on until the trip is 
finished. 

You remind them of the many things that 
could occur. You tell them that the conductor 
or engineer might misread his orders, a mis- 
placed switch might wreck the train, a bridge 
may burn or a storm make the track unsafe 
and you will be restless and uneasy until you 
know they arrived safely. Throughout their 
journey you would be surrounding them with 
the thought of fear for their safety, ignorantly 

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attracting to them the very thing you dread. 
Would love do that? But you would be 
highly indignant if your fidelity, affection or 
devotion were questioned. "Perfect love cast- 
eth out ALL fear." 

Music is the perfect blending of harmony, 
rhythm, sound, color and technique, but you 
would not say that music was harmony. Music 
is harmony but it is more. Harmony is but 
one of the qualities entering into the produc- 
tion of music. So love is NOT an emotion. 
It is the fruitage of the blending of certain of 
the finest qualities of which the human race is 
cognizant. Lust, however refined the name 
you may apply to it, is the culmination of cer- 
tain emotions affecting the animal nature of 
man. 

Love is the absence of envy, forwardness, 
misconduct, anger, deceit, jealousy, or veng- 
ance. It is the presence of poise, service with- 
out the anticipation of reward, seeks to give 
and not get, unwavering faith, simplicity, 
humbleness and silence. Love is not the ab- 
sence of envy nor the presence of poise, these 
are but two of its characteristics. Love for- 
ever refuses to express itself upon the destruct- 

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ive side of life, but forever expresses itself 
upon the constructive side of living. 

All that has gone before has sought to pre- 
pare you for the rightful understanding of 
this tremendous principle. We know that cer- 
tain personages regarded as authority define 
love as an emotion, but there was a time when 
the tomato was called a love apple and regarded 
as very poisonous. Lust is the antithesis of 
love. Did you ever notice how every man is 
so ready and willing to protect a woman against 
every other man EXCEPT HIMSELF? 

Love is its own sure protection, and where 
it exists between man and woman neither en- 
tertains a thought of infidelity towards the 
other. And do we mean by this the state of 
adultery ? Avowedly not. We mean that it is 
the exercise of all the qualities that enter into 
the expressing of love. It is an undisturbed 
attitude of thought each toward the other, pre- 
served and sustained by the principle we call 
love, it is of no consequence how contradictory 
circumstances or conditions may be. Why? 
Because as noted, it is the absence of ALL fear. 

Before the student can possibly hope to 
excel in vibratory intoning they must master 

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this principle. In so far as you master it, just 
so far will you intone in harmony with the 
universe, and in so far as you intone in har- 
mony with the universe, just so far will you 
intone vibrations of health to all the organs of 
the body, and the measure in which you do this 
will determine your scale of perfection, and this 
will determine your place on the path, or degree 
of understanding and illumination. 

You may have a piece of music perfectly 
written, you may have the ability to perfectly 
execute the same, but suppose the instrument 
is woefully out of tune? You may as well be 
a novice and the music a jumble of discord, 
for it would be impossible for you to render 
it perfectly under those conditions. So you 
cannot render the sweetest tone of which you 
are capable until you faithfully and completely 
prepare the instrument. 

Whatever hinders or causes the imperfect 
action of any one of the organs of the body 
must be uprooted and cast out and replaced by 
whatever is essential to the perfect expression 
of that organ. 

Did it ever occur to you why men refer to 
the different vitals of the body as an organ? 

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Men themselves do not know the hidden, esot- 
eric and mystic reason, but they do, and you 
will understand, when, with each organ of the 
body in full and complete harmony with the 
planets, thus sustaining the same harmony 
with the Self-Existent as they, you burst into 
one grand and mighty diapason of praise. 
Learn well the lesson of LOVE. 



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Chapter VI. 



COMPENSATION. 

Emerson declares that there is a law of com- 
pensation. The jurists say, there is a law of 
retributive justice, but long before either of 
them gave voice to the statement, The Record 
declared, "For. whatsoever a man soweth, that 
also shall he reap." Compensation. Again, 
"Judge not that ye be not judged, for with 
what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged 
and with what measure ye meet it shall be 
measured unto you again." Compensation. 

The mastery of this law will bring you well 
on the way to mastership. But it is not con- 
quered in a day, nay many incarnations are re- 
quired for some to grasp, master and appro- 
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trivial they may seem is exempt or immune 
from the action of this law, it is as certain as 
cause and effect. Then know, that each 
thought you indulge of a constructive nature 
is rewarded in the measure it merits and that 
measure is limited only by yourself. You can 
build and preserve your temple or body, or you 
can defile, mutilate and destroy it, for it is 
written, "He that defileth the temple (body) 
him will God the Father destroy." 

Now, remember that the breath is the Father 
side of the God-head and it will soon become 
clear to you how the breath destroys the body. 
You gasp in astonishment and ask, how? 
Recall that you were taught in a former chapter 
how that vital spark was present in and inhaled 
with each breath, that the will was free to 
choose what disposition it would make of it. 
An ancient writer made this observation con- 
cerning this principle: "The law that was or- 
dained unto life, I found to be unto death." 
Did this writer mean that some colossal blunder 
had occured ? Did he mean that deception had 
been practiced upon the race? Certainly not. 
He meant this : Here I am, endowed and fully 
equipped for the journey of life. I can take 

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this force or energy into my body and dispose 
of it as I will to do. If I willfully, knowingly 
or ignorantly waste this substance with riotous 
living, no one in the universe is responsible 
for the wreck but myself. It is a law of life, 
and life more abundant, if I conserve and util- 
ize it upon the constructive side of living. 

You say surely those in ignorance of such a 
law or truth are excusable. No. You may 
lay your hand on a hot stove and experience 
the sensation of burning. You did not know 
the stove was hot, but the stove is ignorant of 
that fact, the result is the same as though you 
were aware. 

We are endowed with the power to think 
and will that we may work out our own salva- 
tion. 

But what has all this to do with vibratory 
intoning? Much. Each organ of the body 
will compensate every effort you make to make 
and keep it healthy. Each thought you direct 
toward them of a helpful nature will be repaid 
fourfold. Fail not to keep constantly in mind 
as you observe the exercises that will herein- 
after be given you, that you are consciously 
directing to each of them in their order, this 

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vital spark contained in the breath, being care- 
ful that no thought of a destructive nature in- 
trude itself. Each thought of a destructive 
nature impregnates this vital spark with its 
nature, and obeying the law of its being, it 
can but deliver its force upon the destructive 
side. It now becomes clear to you how the 
law that was ordained unto your fuller express- 
ion of life becomes the medium of your un- 
doing. And this larger expression of life or 
destruction of the body is accomplished through 
the medium of the Father or breath. 

It is written, "Be sure your sin will find you 
out." The law of compensation will collect 
its toll though the process may seem slow to 
you. But the reverse side of this is just as 
true. Reward, pressed together shaken down 
and running over awaits that one, who, with 
the courage of a conquorer sweeps aside human 
frailty, baptizes himself with the truth and 
dares eternity. Such an one may, by the con- 
tinued conservation of this spark, come at last, 
where, fortified upon the rock of his own im- 
perishable existence he may defy eternity to 
annihilate him. It is but the fruitage of the 

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immutable and inexorable law ordained and 
established by the Self-Existent. 

In much of this the ignorant will say that we 
are chimerical and dreamers, but know THAT 
ALL CONCRETE FACTS ARE ONLY 
MATERIALIZED DREAMS.* 

A king of Egypt dreamed dreams and the 
pyramids of Cheops mass and miracle his vis- 
ion. Those pyramids are encyclopedic of all 
physical learning and astral lore. Geometry, 
Trigonometry, Astronomy, Astrology and Par- 
allax are all symboled in these incomparable 
monuments. The dream of an ancient Al- 
chemist solidified in stone and the awful sphinx 
sat down in Egypt's sands to gaze into eternity. 

Columbus dreamed dreams and turned the 
prow of his little boat towards the west and 
west, until, according to the fancy of Joaquin 
Miller the good mate said, "Not even God 
would know if I and all my men fell down 
dead, now good Admiral, what shall we do?" 
And Columbus remembered his dream and 
answered, "Sail on, Sail on, Sail on and on." 
On unchartered seas the good boat Pinta plowed 

♦We are indebted to Dr. Geo. W. Carey for much aid 
in preparing the above observations on the dreamer. 

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the trackless main until she dropped her anchor 
in Cuba's waters and a new world was born. 
Hudson and Fulton dreamed dreams, and now, 
our boats run under and over the seas. Frank- 
lin, Morse, Edison, Telsa and Marconi dreamed 
dreams, and now, concentrated intelligence 
leaps from carbon crucible, lashes the conti- 
nents together and makes neighbors of us all. 

A mechanic dreams dreams, and now, man 
leaps into his automobile and drives it until 
the axels blaze and space shrivels behind him. 
A musician dreams dreams, and out of throats 
of brass and tubes of silver and discs of car- 
bon there roll a million notes that first ran riot 
in the dreamers brain. Men of high strung 
brains dreamed dreams, and now, the majestic 
sweep of the mighty eagle and the highway of 
man across the vaulted skies lie parallel. 

So you too have dreamed dreams of the per- 
fect man. Know that your ability to con- 
ceive such a picture is evidence of your ability 
to achieve and consumate the purpose. There 
are those who talk much of being an angel 
some day. You are not an angel, you don't 
want to be an angel. But you do want to be 
a man after God's idea and in His likeness. 

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And God's idea of manhood was expressed to 
the world in the matchless life of the Nazarene. 
Behold that life, how well begun, how mag- 
nificently built and how sublimely finished. 
And there it stands, the study of angels, the 
hope of man, the crowning work of the Self- 
Existent, the masterpiece of Heaven. That 
you can duplicate this life is the eternal truth, 
that stands as a beacon light flashing its rays 
across the centuries guiding the earnest seeker 
into the port of mastership. This is the reward 
or compensation that awaits those who master 
the art of vibratory intoning. 



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Chapter VII. 



FEAR, 



It will be necessary now to enter somewhat 
extensively into the analysis of the human body 
for you to understand our teaching concerning 
fear, but we adjure you to give good heed to 
the instructions and teachings given here. 
More depends upon your mastery of this prob- 
lem than any one obstacle that you will con- 
tact upon the path. As fear is the presence of 
doubt, so faith is the absence of all fear. We 
would not doubt except we fear, and we would 
not fear except we doubt. 

We now invite your attention to the con- 
sideration of the words of one of the greatest 
teachers of the past. "Wherefore, seeing we 
are compassed about with so great a cloud of 

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witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and 
THE sin that doth so easily beset us, and run 
with patience the race that is set before us." 
Doubtless none who read these lines have es- 
caped hearing at least one or two discourses 
on the besetting sin. But notice the evident 
meaning and teaching of this master. The 
chapter in Hebrews from which our words 
are quoted, is preceeded by one given over en- 
tirely to the discussion of the victories of faith. 
Now, after recounting these victories or 
demonstrations, he invites his students to the 
same triumph, teaching them the process. He 
first invited their attention to the number and 
character of witnesses that had proven the law 
and how it was accomplished. By laying aside 
any and everything that would hinder the free 
movement of the mental as well as the physical 
body. The figure for this illustration by this 
writer was drawn from the ancient contests 
held in the stadium at Athens. Four lines 
were drawn equal distance apart: At the 
farther end of the path was a pole on which 
hung the victor's crown. But one rule gov- 
erned the contest, no runner dared to even 
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keep his eye on the crown. Though he might 
outstrip all the others in the contest he was 
disqualified for the infraction of this rule. 

Several days before the contest the runners 
would wear heavy weights about their ankles 
to make them feel fleeter of foot when the day 
arrived for the struggle. The friends of the 
different contestants would do all in their 
power to attract the attention of the one they 
wanted to see defeated and thus disqualify 
him. This was the besetting fear of each 
runner. Fear that his attention would be dis- 
tracted from the crown. Now notice how 
closely this ancient teacher followed the figure. 
Let us lay aside every weight : Now, he pauses 
and emphasizes one particular sin or short- 
coming. And THE sin that doth so EASILY 
beset us. What did the preceding chapter 
teach? Faith. What is the opposite of faith? 
Doubt, unbelief. This then is the sin that so 
easily besets the human race, and if you will 
pull up all your fears by the roots you will find 
the tap root is made up of doubt. 

We come now to analyze the human body 
to some extent. It is estimated that it takes 
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inch of skin. It takes about sixty square feet 
of skin to cover the average man. There are 
one hundred and fourty-four square inches in 
a square foot. Sixty square feet reduced, gives 
us eight thousand six hundred and forty square 
inches. Now multiply this number by nine 
billion and you will have the approximate 
number of cells that it takes to make up the 
skin alone. We have not touched the arteries 
veins, bones, vitals, in fact none of the other 
twelve men of the body. You see it grows to 
be a number past human computation. "In 
my Father's house are many mansions." Your \J 
physical body is the Father's (Breath) house / 
and each cell must feel that life giving breath./ 

Now realize this truth that each and every 
cell of your body contains a living, pulsing 
throbbing intelligence or thought, and the 
CHARACTER of the thought determines the 
QUALITY of the cell. The character of each 
thought exercises a reflex action upon each cell, 
so that the cell cannot be better than the thought — 
that creates it. Each thought creates its own 
cell for habitation for, "Men do not put new 
wine in old bottles," that is the new thought 
is not housed in an old cell; this explains the 

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' tearing down and building up process that is 
continually going on in our bodies. 

You see then, the physical body must mani- 
fest in quality and form, in harmony with the 
character of thoughts we indulge. Suppose 
you had an apiary, and you had some bees 
among the wild flowers, some in the clover, 
some in the apple blossoms and yet others in 
the sage. The character of sweet gathered by 
the bees would determine the quality of honey. 
The honeycomb is not the honey; it contains 
the honey. And just as the honeycomb con- 
tains the honey, so does the cellular construc- 
tion of your body contain the thought man. 
And as the character of sweet gathered by the 
bees determine the quality of your honey, so 

I does the character of your thought determine 

1 the quality of each cell. 

Following the law that like begets like, it is 
very easy for you to understand how your body 
becomes surcharged with fear, when you suffer 
thoughts of fear to occupy your mind. Your 
body becomes a lodestone as it were, attract- 
ing to you the thing you dread. Then Job 
was right when he said, "The thing that I 
feared hath come upon me." Why would it 

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not come upon him, when he continually in- 
dulged the thought of fear? Refuse to let 
any thought register in the cellular construc- 
tion of your body unworthy the scrutiny of the 
Self -Existent. 

Suppose that you were employed in a build- 
ing where you were in momentary fear of the 
roof falling in or the foundation giving way or 
the total collapse of the building. As a matter 
of course, you could not render the best service 
of which you are capable under those condi- 
tions. Just so is each organ of the body our 
employee as it were, with the thought man act- 
ing as the employer. Now if you are con- 
tinually sending these organs reports of fear, 
it is impossible for them to perfectly perform 
their function. Because each thought of fear 
that builds a cell in an organ weakens that par- 
ticular organ the full extent of its influence. 
The measure in which you weaken the different 
organs of the body, in the same measure is 
their action retarded and the result can but 
manifest in the physical body. It must be ap- 
parent to you then, that all sense of fear must 
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to master the law affecting a perfect express- 
ion of life. 

Fear is the parent of self-pity, and this in 
turn leads to loss of confidence, power, and 
initiative force, resulting in senility, debilita- 
tion and finally disintegration of the body. 



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Chapter VIII. 



INTUITION. 

Much has been written upon this subject, 
but we are unable to recall a work that meets 
the requirements or satisfies the demand of 
mind. In this short treatise that we shall of- 
fer you, our sole purpose is to teach you how 
to consciously and knowingly contact your own 
intuitive self or mind. Your conscious self to 
contact the real self, or the silent. 

As noted in a former chapter, the physical 
body is unquestionably the product of evolu- 
tion. To accept this view is a far greater 
tribute to the creative power of the Self-Exist- 
tent, than to imagine man created and sent 
out in his present form. Slowly across the 
ages, the brain in the skull took shape under the 

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guidance of the Self-Existent, until the move- 
ment or spirit manifested as mind. 

Here man begun in a very crude way to 
think. Crude, not because mind was in any 
sense limited, but the organ we call the brain 
was yet in embryo, undeveloped by the action 
of thought, therefore limiting the manifesta- 
tion of mind. Up to the time man begun to 
think through the brain in the skull, that we 
call instinct in the lower animals was his guide. 
That instinct is unerring in them is not a 
matter of dispute, but self evident. Life feeds 
on life whether you are a vegetarian or an 
eater of meats, hence the instinct of a lower 
animal might warn it of impending danger, 
but the more wily and stronger animal makes 
it its prey. 

Strictly speaking, mind functioning through 
the brain in the skull, is the beast mind. That 
is, mind manifests as consciousness through a 
medium that is animal and physical. It is of 
no consequence how lofty, refined and elevat- 
ing the thought proceeding from this organ, 
it is but the shadow of the real. It seems 
pertinent just at this point to make some ob- 
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no one presume that we shall undertake the 
discussion of ghosts and spooks or anything 
akin to such phantasies, ours is a broader field. 
We hold this postulate to be true, that what- 
ever exists subject to the law of change is un- 
real. Whatever exists independent and im- 
mune from the law of change is real. There 
is but one thing that we think or speak of as 
changeless and unchanging, and that is spirit, 
therefore all else is but a shadow or reflection 
of this energy in some form of expression. 

The form of expression may change, but the 
force or energy expressing forever remains the 
same. Hence all that we cognize with our 
five senses on the outer plane is but the shad- 
ow of the real. For each sense you possess on 
the physical plane there is its complement on 
the higher plane. Remember that there were 
ten virgins, five were wise and five were fool- 
ish. The word virgin, means purity. The ten 
virgins symbolize the ten senses with which 
we are endowed, but as a race have only learned 
to use the five. We have been taught their 
use and learned to depend upon them, but have 
never been taught that there were five other 

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senses, or rather the exercise of the same fac- 
ulties upon a higher plane of living. 

"Oh taste and see that the Lord is Good." 
"I feel after God, if haply I might find Him." 
"I have heard of Thee by the HEARING of 
the ear, but now mine EYE SEETH Thee." 
"I hear Thy footsteps in the still watches of 
the night." "Who hath offered himself once 
unto God, as a sacrifice for a sweet smelling 
savor." 

These words are quoted from different 
masters of the past, writing in the book known 
as the Bible or Record, and are introduced to 
show you that the ancients really understood 
the law of vibratory intoning, for it was 
through this process that they raised their 
vibrations until the senses functioned on the 
plane of the invisible. 

The conscious mind, or mind functioning 
through the brain in the skull, is utterly incap- 
able of arriving at the truth or illumination, 
except it be taught and guided by the 
KNOWER or the intuitive self. The con- 
scious mind in its very nature it limited. Not 
that mind, per se, is limited, but the instrument 
through which mind functions in the skull limits 

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its expression. Reason is its torch and its 
limit is reached, or the boundary of all human 
endeavor when one exercises their best judg- 
ment. But reason is unreliable, judgment 
faulty and fallible because both are subject to 
the law of change. 

One may have a heavy problem to solve and 
in so far as their reason is able to report, they 
finally find the solution, only to wake up in the 
morning and undo the whole thing. This is 
the infallible test between the voice of reason 
or the conscious mind, and the voice of intui- 
tion or the voice of the KNOWER. Reason 
may change its conclusion over night, but intu- 
ition never changes because it is always right. 
Reason presents a proposition, but something 
within knows that it is wrong. 

And it is just at this point that humanity 
weakens, listens to the voice of reason, doubt- 
ing the voice of the KNOWER, and go on 
following the Ignus Fatus in so far as the 
higher things of life are concerned. Intuition 
is the God given birthright of every man. 
But when the brain in the skull became highly 
enough sensitized, and man begun to think, he 
followed the conclusions of his reason or con- 

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scious mind, or the beast mind usurped the 
throne or birthright of the intuitive self. The 
conscious mind is an interloper and usurper 
where the higher things of life are concerned, 
and must humble its pride and inquire of these 
things at the feet of the KNOWER or intu- 
itive mind. 

How often have you had the experience in 
life of feeling that a thing was true or untrue 
as the case may be? You could not by any 
process of reasoning tell another how you 
knew, because you could not explain satisfac- 
torily to yourself how you knew. But the con- 
viction of the truth or untruth would seize you 
with such force that you did not doubt. You 
knew that you knew. 

Now would it not be wonderful to form a 
conscious and unbroken connection with this 
KNOWER that is within each of us? It can 
be done, and it is the purpose of this short 
chapter to teach you the method. First, set 
aside an hour that you can keep with unbroken 
regularity. After retiring at night is best, 
when you are less likely to be disturbed. 
Keep this hour as an appointment. Register 

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it and keep it as sacredly as you would an ap- 
pointment with your best friend. 

Having lain down. Now relax. Let go. 
Become perfectly passive. Never negative. 
You can be passively positive or positively 
passive. Now T empty the brain of every con- 
scious thought except the thing you would 
inquire of the KNOWER. Now form what- 
ever is in your mind into a concrete question. 
Now direct the question to your KNOWER 
that has residence in your solar plexus or 
second brain. This is the home of the 
KNOWER or Intuitive mind. Now suffer 
nothing to come between you and this question 
you have asked until you fall asleep, and the 
first conscious thought that forms in your 
mind when waking is the answer to your in- 
quiry. 

Some will experience much trouble in doing 
this, being unable to keep other thoughts from 
intruding after having asked their question. 
This will of course destroy the connection and 
failure is the result. But do not despair, keep 
at it and your reward is sure and certain. 
After having once demonstrated for yourself 
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soon cultivate a conscious and sustained rela- 
tion. 

The trouble with most of the race is that 
we do not think, we are content to talk to our- 
selves. Suppose you are walking along the 
street in company with a friend and you pass 
someone who is mumbling, and your friend 
asks you if you heard the party talking to 
themselves, and you answer yes. They were 
not talking to themselves, if they had been you 
would not have heard them. They may not 
have been talking to anyone in particular, but 
it is certain they were not talking to themselves 
else you would not have heard their voice. 

The truth is this, when words are forming 
themselves in our minds and these words are 
transforming themselves into sentences, and we 
in turn, are repeating the sentences, we are the 
ones who are talking to ourselves. TO WHOM 
ARE YOU REPEATING THE SENTEN- 
CES THAT HAVE OCCURED TO YOU 
TODAY? What is that within you to whom 
you repeat sentences? We use the phrase, to 
whom, because of the fact that yourself recog- 
nize it as an intelligence able to comprehend 
your meaning, else why repeat the sentences? 

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Only when you are able to suspend the ac- 
tion of mind through the brain in the skull, 
until not a single word is forming, will you 
reach the SILENCE where all real and genuine 
thought occurs. Mind functioning through 
the brain in the skull is reasoning but is not 
thinking in the deepest and truest sense of the 
word. This will lead you to the silence at 
whose shrine you must learn to worship if you 
would learn the secret of mastership and have 
fellowship with those who have trodden the 
path. 

This is the lesson the ancients sought to 
teach with the SPHINX. If you can under- 
stand, that not until our eyes become as un- 
seeing, our ears as deaf, our lips as sealed and 
our course towards the East or light, as un- 
changed and immovable as this massive pile 
of stone, will we comprehend the meaning of 
it all. For over forty centuries it has cried 
aloud with its silence. Locked within itself 
is the mystery of its being. So locked within 
the silence is the sum total of all knowledge, of 
all wisdom, strength power and understanding. 

Only in the silence can you contact your 
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not to do in order to master the art of vibratory- 
intoning. Here you touch the source and 
fountain head of all knowledge. But you must 
keep yourself in tune. One wireless station 
can communicate with another when properly 
adjusted or en-rapport as it were. So you can- 
not expect to reach your intuitive mind when 
the conscious mind is filled with the things 
that occupy your attention upon the outer plane. 
But, with the conscious mind silenced, you are 
then in harmony or en-rapport with the 
KNOWER that dwells in the silence and can 
receive its message or hear its voice. 

In this manner do you form a conscious 
union with the Knower within. The inex- 
haustible supply of the universe is at your com- 
mand. The reservoir of knowledge is un- 
locked. The portals to the gateway of all 
TRUTH swing wide. Enter, but give good 
heed HOW you enter. 



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Chapter IX. 



VIBRATION. 

Vibration is not life, but the vehicle through 
which life announces its presence. Vibration 
is rate of motion, and the rate of motion sus- 
tained by the principle of life is determined by 
the amount of resistance encountered in its 
movement. Here is the point where rhythm 
and vibration are practically inseparable. It is 
the inflow and out flow, rising and falling, ebb- 
ing and returning, backward and forward, ad- 
vancing, retreating, in fact the swing of the 
pendulum in everything. The rate of motion 
sustained by the pendulum is its vibration, and 
its speed is determined by the character or 
amount of resistance met in its journey. The 
degrees of vibration or motion in the universe 

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are all but infinite, hence the different forms 
of expression. That something pulsing through 
the universe and manifesting in innumerable 
forms we call spirit. In the last analysis there 
can be no such thing as matter, for, "As it is 
above so it is below." 

In a former chapter we referred to an ordi- 
nary wooden top. Now suppose you spin that 
top until it is apparently standing still, and by 
some occult force you cause it to vibrate faster 
and faster. Eventually it would give off a 
low hum or growl, and as you increased the 
rate of motion it would run the entire scale of 
sound until it became a shriek and finally lost 
to the ear because of its increased rate of 
motion or vibration. 

To continue to increase the speed of the top 
would result in its giving off a dull red glow, 
the foundation, or lowest rate of motion in 
color. As you increase its rate of motion it 
would run the entire gamut of color and event- 
ually vanish in the white, the vibration causing 
such extreme friction. 

Now if you could reach the molecules, atoms 
and electrons and ions that made up the top and 
cause them to vibrate yet faster you must see 

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how it would finally reach the highest rate of 
motion or that of spirit. This is how it is be- 
low as it is above, for all the difference there 
is between the top in visible form and the in- 
visible is degree or rate of motion. Hence all 
that differentiates anything in life is degree 
and not substance. 

We have, for the sake of convenience of ex- 
pression for the conscious mind that we term 
opposites, such as light and dark, heat and cold, 
hate and love, good and evil. But more love 
is only less hate, more heat, less cold, more light 
less dark, more good, less evil, etc. This 
brings us back to a former postulate already ob- 
served in this work, there is but one THING 
in the universe and all that differentiates 
things, as we know them, is degree and NOT 
substance. 

Once more let us follow the process to better 
fix it in our minds before proceeding further. 
Vibration is the vehicle through which life 
announces its presence, life is the manifesta- 
tion of spirit and spirit is the avenue through 
which THAT or the Self -Existent manifests 
itself. It is evident now how THAT is in 
ALL, and how ALL is in THAT. The rate 

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of motion of THAT determines sound, color, 
harmony rhythm, form and degree. Master- 
ship involves the appropriating of THAT 
through the vital spark mentioned in former 
chapters, gradually increasing the rate of mo- 
tion or vibration of the body, lifting it higher 
and higher in the scale of manifestation in 
form, until, like the top it vanishes in the white 
even as the Great Master. 

This is what an ancient writer meant in dis- 
cussing this principle. It is sown in corruption, 
it is raised in vibration to incorruption. It is 
sown in weakness but is gradually raised to 
power. It is sown a natural body it is raised 
in vibration to the spiritual body. It is raising 
the visible to the plane of the invisible through 
and by the process above noted, both being the 
same in substance but vastly different in rate 
of vibration or motion. 

This accounts for the exercise of choice. 
How often, after listening to a great artist on 
the violin, piano or in song, you hear the ex- 
pression, "I thought that such and such a num- 
ber was wonderful," while another would say 
"Well, it was fair, but I liked such and such 
a number much better." Why the difference? 

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Because of different rates of motion or vibra- 
tion. 

Sound is vibration, or rather the vehicle 
through which sound becomes audible. You 
may cast a rock with such force that it produces 
a "Swishing" sound as it passes through the 
air. Fire a bullet from a rifle and it produces 
a whirring or singing sound, the rate of motion 
accounting for the difference in the sound pro- 
duced. 

It must be clearer to you now, how, that if 
you expect to excel in vibratory intoning you 
must master the law of vibration. Do you 
not see that the higher you raise the vitals in 
their vibration a corresponding increase in rate 
of motion must result throughout the body and 
this naturally gives us a broader and more 
comprehensive understanding of the law gov- 
erning harmony, rhythm, color and technique? 
By the use of this law you are able to mold 
these qualities into tone, shading the tone as 
you will, making it mellow or harsh, flexible 
or rigid, full or subdued, over or under, major 
or minor. 

As there must be a motive power in the pro- 
duction of sound so there must be resistance 

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else no sound would occur. The abdominal 
region is the home of the motive power while 
the chest box and resonating cavities form the 
resisting or sounding board as it were. The 
winged shaped bone in the front of the head 
together with the cheek bones form the sound- 
ing board, while all the little holes or cavities 
that characterize them form the caverns or 
resonating chambers. 

The violin may be likened unto the chest 
box, the bow unto the motive power while the 
strings form the resistance. The violin would 
not be complete with any one of these three 
essentials missing. A perfect harmony must 
exist between them before it can deliver the 
purest tone of which it is capable. The violin 
is the cause from which proceeds the effect of 
tone, of course it is understood that intelligence 
is manipulating the bow. It is impossible for 
the manipulator to transmit to the instrument 
a higher rate of motion than they feel, and the 
instrument will express tone in keeping with 
the degree of harmony or vibration that charac- 
terizes the player. 

Just so with the human body, there must 
exist a harmony or balance between the motive 

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power and the resisting element that enters 
into the production of sound. Learn to intone 
or produce sound by balancing the motive 
power with the resistance offered by the reson- 
ating cavities and this is accomplished by caus- 
ing each part of the body to vibrate in harmony 



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Chapter X. 



HEALTH. 

Just here we want to introduce the effect of 
the power of music to help in restoring and pre- 
serving perfect health. As music is the com- 
bination of sound, harmony, rhythm, color and 
technique, even so is bodily health the result 
of all these in perfect combination, and more. 
When no organ of the body is sounding a dis- 
cordant note by virtue of its being in harmony 
with all the rest of the body, our physical 
bodies can but manifest perfect health. 

Just as you have sharps and flats in music, 
so do we have what may be termed their cor- 
respondents in the body. To play a note sharp 
that is written flat in the music, or play a note 
flat that is written sharp, can but produce dis- 

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cord. One whose ear is highly trained and 
sensitive to the slightest variation in shade or 
color will actually suffer when a note is thus 
rendered. So in the body, when an organ 
falls below normal, or through indescretion its 
movement is accelerated to a degree that is 
highly abnormal, it reports the situation to 
the intelligence through the avenue of pain. 

Now take the chart that is appended to this 
work and treat the disturbance yourself. Sup^ 
pose it to be your stomach that is troubling 
you. The correspondent of this in the heavens 
is Jupiter, its color is green, it is a major 
planet, rules the element of fire, is masculine 
and is the money changer in the body. Now 
don't select some piece that is filled with pass- 
ages of the adagio, something that weeps and 
wails and is full of tears and heartaches unless 
you want to intensify the condition in the 
stomach. Select a piece in harmony with the 
organ or "planet" in the body that is affected. 
Something that is full of action, fire and vigor. 
Now as you play, turn that stream of music 
into the stomach. Feel it vibrate all through 
that organ until it responds to such a measure 

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that you are bewildered with the simplicity of 
it all. 

In the same manner, consult the chart and 
treat any other organ of the body that is tired, 
overloaded or in rebellion. You have doubt- 
less wondered why so many musicians are frail, 
enemic and erratic. It is because they have 
given themselves up to one particular phase of 
music, ninety per cent of them favoring the 
highly emotional vainly believing that in ex- 
pressing the highest degree of emotion through 
their music they are reaching mastership. 

Do you not see that they are unbalanced? 
Favoring one phase of the art to the neglect 
of all the rest ? This is why the greatest piece 
of music has never been written nor the great- 
est artist has not yet appeared. We would 
not discourage this phase of the art but we 
would encourage the development of all the 
rest. 

It is through the emotions that the great 
artist must pass to his crucifixion, but not until 
they pass the garden with the last emotion 
slain, will they be masters of emotion. In so 
far as the emotion overwhelms and surges 
through him, in the same measure does he com- 

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municate it to his listeners, but do you not see 
that it is emotion mastering him, and not he 
master of emotion. The ancients have written : 
"Not until the voice has lost its power to 
wound, not until the feet are bathed in the 
blood of the heart, not until the eyes are in- 
capable of tears, will you be able to stand in 
the presence of the masters." 

You must come to the place, where without 
the slighest trace of emotion, you can plunge 
your hearers into the deepest depths of despair, 
or lift them to the highest heights they have 
the power to endure, nothing short of this is 
mastery. On the surface you may apparently 
be alive with emotion, but within is that secret 
power and poise that is unmoved and unaf- 
fected, and your hearers contact that wonderful 
poise and power through the avenue of THEIR 
emotions and wonder at your skill. 

Learn to play proficiently upon the body, or 
harp of life, and you will carry harmony and 
happiness into all the currents you contact. 
Health is a question of dynamics or vibration. 
The physician fails because he is trying to re- 
lieve a physical manifestation with a physical 
application, as well try to lift your 

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weight by your bootstraps. The surgeon 
enters and declares that he will cure the ail- 
ment by removing the cause and proceeds to 
operate. What has he removed? The cause? 
Certainly not, he removed a manifestation or 
effect. 

The mental is a much higher rate of motion 
than the physical. Then do you not see that 
in order to reach the lower you must introduce 
the higher rates of motion or vibration, lifting 
the lower up to a plane where it is impossible 
for disease to exist. Dis-ease can exist only 
in the presence of dis-cord, (DISCHORD) or 
inharmony. The reverse of this is true, health 
can only exist in the presence of chord and 
harmony. 



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Chapter XI. 



NERVE RESPIRATION. 

You were taught in another chapter how 
the vital spark in the breath was transferred 
from its point of entrance into the body, to the 
lungs, where, it was transferred to the blood 
which in turn transfers it to the nerve man at 
the solar plexus. Hence the nerve man of the 
body receives our attention at this point. 

The nerve man in the body is the direct 
agent of all change. It can be trained through 
the use of our will, until it is master, rather 
than its being governed by other influences 
that affect us. What you are today is the re- 
sult of your thought and breathing, as its 
development is manifest in and throughout 
your nerve system, and has fastened itself upon 

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you as second nature from force of habit. You 
suffer yourself to fall into the habit of think- 
ing along certain lines, and habit of thinking 
becomes habit of acting, habit of acting tends 
to fixedness or character. 

The spine influences nerve respiration as 
well as lung respiration because the nerves 
and muscles entering into this action are either 
anchored to, pass through, or connected with 
the spine in a secondary sense. Without the 
spine the chest box nor the abdomen could not 
rise and fall or sustain the rhythmic movement 
so necessary to perfect breathing, nor could 
the vocal organs operate independent of the 
spine. 

The nerves represent the avenue through 
which the underlying principle of all move- 
ment manifests either in the physical or mental 
man. Breathing through the lungs involves 
a chemical change or action in the blood, but 
represents a very small part of the breath 
needed to revitalize and rehabilitate the entire 
body. Voice culture or training must be 
brought under the dominion or government of 
the nerve man, which, of course, must first be 
awakened and brought to a sense of realiza- 

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tion of its rightful place and office in the body. 

Then, fully alive and surcharged with the 
force transmitted to it by way of the vital 
spark, it may assume mastership of all the 
other men of the body. Perfect tone produc- 
tion begins only when we have obtained per- 
fect muscular and mental poise. Not until 
then is the instrument ready to be extensively 
used because neither the singer nor speaker 
have the power to interpret the psychological 
message, which is the soul of the voice. 

For this reason the student must understand 
the various important centers we call a plexus. 
This means an intricate mass of motor nerves 
that interchange branches before entering the 
muscles, because the muscles do not act of 
their own volition, but in concord with the 
initiative arising in the nerve man. 

One of the nerves branching off from the 
Medulla and the upper part of the spine con- 
nects with the Pneuma-gastric nerve located 
at the solar plexus, which, through various 
branches touch the pharnyx, the larynx, the 
lungs, the heart and the stomach. The great 
problem lies in rising to the plane of self real- 
ization, or the realization that we are the 

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microcosm of the macrocosm or an epitome of 
the universe. 

This being accomplished, we are forced to 
recognize the fact that through the conscious 
application of the nerve man alone, will we be 
able to develop our talents and personality. 

Back of the voice is the mind, will and ego. 
The ego is that within us that conducts respi- 
ration while we sleep. Of course this is but 
one of its functions, but this is enough to serve 
our present purpose. Voice control is the out- 
come of our controlling our thoughts and emo- 
tions instead of being controlled by them. We 
must never lose self control, but compel the 
nerve man to function perfectly in breathing, 
then will our voice express confidence and as- 
surance for it is the direct medium of express- 
ion. 

All nervousness is due to ignorance. There 
is something we do not understand or have not 
mastered. We would not be nervous if we 
knew how not to be nervous. You apply the 
principle of breathing as has been taught you 
in these pages, together with the proper selec- 
tion of music and your nervousness will dis- 
appear. 

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Will cannot direct your practice if you have 
no control of the will and you cannot control 
the will, except you are in command of the 
nerve man, and you are not in command of the 
nerve man except the ego be in charge, for the 
nerve man bows to no other force or power. 
Except you realize a consciousness of mastery 
you are not operating through your ego, but 
are operated upon by the forces and influences 
that play upon you. 

Knowledge is the fundamental requisite for 
success in any field. Psychology does not rep- 
resent a metaphysical supposition, but an avenue 
or source, which, through proper control will 
yield control of the faculties. This is a law, 
but law is not a force. It is the avenue through 
which force is applied. 

Perfect poise of body cannot exist except 
it be preceeded by poise of mind, then how 
essential it is that we master the art of nerve 
control. Unless nerve control is understood 
and practiced from a scientific point of view 
the student will become a nervous wreck in- 
stead of a self controlled artist. 

Nerve respiration must be constantly prac- 
ticed by the student until ego, mind and will 

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operate through voluntary nerve stimulation, 
which in no way exhausts the student who un- 
derstands its application and the art of rein- 
forcement. Students who constantly exhaust 
themselves through their emotions or nervous- 
ness are not suffering from an individual tem- 
permental nature, as so many of them assert, 
but from a lack of knowledge of how to prop- 
erly govern their expression of emotion. 

Poise of the nerve man must become habitual 
with the artist. This can only be accomplished 
by the conscious understanding and application 
of psychology which, in this instance should 
mean, the control of breathing, thoughts and 
will through a reasonable knowledge of our 
nerve system. 

As a practical demonstration of poise and 
control of nerves, let the student learn to dis- 
tinguish between the diaphragmetic action of 
the abdominal muscles and that which springs 
from nerve respiration. The former is but 
the muscular action arising from habitual 
nerve action, while the latter is the action of 
these muscles governed and controlled through 
nerve respiration. For the benefit of those 
who do not know what part of the anatomy 

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is known as the diaphragm, it is defined as a 
very important muscle necessary to respiration, 
situated between the thoracic and abdominal 
cavities. 

Let the forward muscular expansion at this 
point follow anatomical adjustment of the 
body, without being conscious of breathing or 
the using of unnecessary force. Now place 
the hands over the navel, take a deep conscious 
inhalation without giving the body a thought, 
drawing the breath up from the solar plexus to 
the Medulla and you will be conscious of quite 
an expansion of the diaphragm, and a corre- 
sponding stimulating of the entire trunk of the 
body. 

As we develop control of breath or the power 
to draw it upward to the Medulla we find that 
this expansion of the diaphragm develops very 
rapidly and far more than could ever be at- 
tained by concentrating our efforts upon mus- 
cular action. 

As we progress in this mode of breathing 
we will understand why the Oriental philoso- 
phers concentrated upon the nerve centers, re- 
fering to the Solar plexus as the Sun, and to 
the brain as the Moon. They recognize the 

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fact that access to the innermost recesses of 
our brain can be reached only through nerve 
breathing. This mode of breathing being ac- 
centuated and stimulated by conscious inhala- 
tion directed from the Solar Plexus to the 
Medulla. 

In ordinary relaxed breathing, such as when 
we are asleep, nature regulates the action of 
inhalation automatically by sending stimulus 
down from the Medulla to the various plexus 
in the body, so that we experience a restful and 
soothing reinforcement. But for the cultiva- 
tion of art we must understand how to add a 
complimentary increase of nerve stimulus by 
reversing the automatic action and drawing 
the breath upward from the different plexus 
to the Medulla and distributing its life giving 
current in harmony with the concentration of 
our will. Health and nerve breathing be- 
come habitual when nature's law of physical 
adjustment is understood and applied. 

But art demands a voluntary increase in the 
supply of breath. This is accomplished by our 
will, directing from the lower plexus of the 
body this nerve stimulus, traversing the entire 
nerve man until it reaches the Medulla. This 

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method of breathing can be developed in a com- 
paratively short time if the practice is system- 
atic, but it is imperative that it be accomplished 
in progressive stages. 

To suddenly strike ones keynote in harmony 
with the universe would result in the absolute 
destruction of the body. You are doubtless 
familiar with the story of the fiddler, when 
angered by the builders of a bridge, threatened 
to "Fiddle down their bridge" as he put it, and 
how they beseeched him to cease, when, strik- 
ing the keynote of the bridge upon his violin 
the mass of steel and iron begun to rock and 
vibrate. This is in accordance with the law 
of rhythm. A dog trotting across a bridge will 
cause it to rattle and vibrate more than a team 
of horses walking across the same structure. 
A story, well authenticated, is told of an old 
professor in music, who was wont to bring his 
bow across a large cut glass bowl that stood on 
his table, before commencing his exercise. One 
morning he struck the keynote of the bowl and 
a million fragments was all that was left, some 
of them being almost as fine as dust. 

This is what would occur to us did we come 
suddenly into the art of nerve breathing and 

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intoning. A few minutes at most should be 
the limit of our first efforts, gradually length- 
ening the exercise until, interspersed with short 
rests, we reach the limit of thirty minutes. 

The first rush of breath to the Medulla 
through nerve breathing will make the student 
dizzy for a moment or two, as this charging 
of this organ with finer ether vibrations through 
the use of this method, affects the brain and 
nerve system like new wine. It stirs our dorm- 
ant powers, not only stimulating the muscles 
to greater activity, but it accelerates the move- 
ment of the nerve fluid in the brain inspiring 
the mind, begetting higher rates of motion and 
we experience greater psychological activity. 

It is therefore very essential that the student 
understand how and why the nerve man pre- 
sides over the functions of the body as the 
avenue for the inflow of life, the harmonizer 
and stabilizer of man. Its progressive develop- 
ment is entirely dependent upon the under- 
standing and right application of psychological 
knowledge. 

Muscular movement must be controlled by 
a superior agency, therefore our nerve man 
operates in equal sympathy with all psycho- 

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logical or physiological factors. The first thing 
is to acquaint the student to a certain extent 
with their nerve centers, that they may under- 
stand their function and arrive at a central 
point from which the will can be controlled. 
Then, with concentration, learn to discipline 
our forces, for we are beginning to learn and 
understand that muscles cannot be controlled 
except through the nerve man. The student 
must study the spinal cord and the method of 
receiving and transmuting nerve stimulus be- 
cause this governs all motion. 

Motory and sensory nerves extend their 
fibres through little holes in each of the verta- 
bra thus forming a chain of tiny nerve centers 
all working in mutual co-operation. At the 
top where it enters the skull it is known as the 
Cerebrospinal man and has its headquarters 
in that all important center, the Medulla Ob- 
longata which controls the entire spinal cord. 
This center regulates our pulse and breath, at 
the same time being the medium of communi- 
cation between the plexus of nerves above and 
those below. 

The activity of the spinal cord is dependent 
upon the life giving vital spark that is received 

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into the body through the medium of breathing 
and the life giving properties of this spark are 
communicated to it as it passes through on 
its way from the nerve with the fish shaped 
mouth to the Medulla. 

Our nerves may be acted upon by outside 
conditions, but if we are in command, they can 
only affect us as far as we permit. Through 
this mode of breathing we can recharge the 
entire nerve man, regulating its stimulation 
by varying degrees of inhalation, applied in 
accordance with our will and concentration. 

Nerve breathing governs the supply of 
complementary air, and is controlled by the 
different plexus up to the terminating center 
of the spinal cord. This breathing stimulates 
all our organs and when rightly understood and 
practiced, leads to super-human power of 
development resulting in perfect poise. 

This mode of respiration which we term 
Medulla breathing, is the direct medium of all 
physical, mental and spiritual achievement. 



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POISE, 

We have considered the difference between 
localized and vitalized breathing, now we turn 
our attention to reinforcing that we have been 
giving out. Thus far we have stressed the 
necessity of awakening the nerve man to its 
sense of duty and consciously and intelligently 
using it in Medulla breathing. Should we con- 
tinue this process without teaching you to re- 
inforce the supply you have thus far been ignor- 
antly drawing from, you would soon deplete the 
system and find yourself in a worse condition 
than ever. 

Hence it is imperative that you give much 
thought and study to the office and function 
of the bones in all of this. By reference to the 
introductory notes in this book you will find 

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the reference to the planet Saturn and its in- 
fluence upon the bones. This is the point 
where vitalized breathing or breathing through 
the Medulla, is an eagles flight beyond the 
localized breathing that involves the action of 
only the nostrils and lungs. 

This substance in the soft spongy bones of 
the body is in reality the foundation of the 
whole scheme. Without this substance the 
heart would have nothing out of which to man- 
ufacture the red corpuscle, without the red 
corpuscle we would have no agent to carry the 
vital spark, without the vital spark we would 
have no energy with which to breathe and 
without breathing we would become inert. 

It is evident then that we must reinforce 
this substance that there may always be a supply 
in the bones upon which the heart may draw for 
the substance of the blood. This is accom- 
plished by actually breathing through the bones. 
If you should hermetrically seal your body, leav- 
ing the mouth and nostrils free to breathe, it 
would be but a short time until you would pass 
out of the body. 

There are in the skin, passing inward from 
the surface, an intricate system of tubes so 

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very fine and small that they must be looked 
at under the glass to see them. Yet they are 
so numerous, if they were extracted from the 
skin and placed end to end they would form 
a conduit over forty-two miles in length. 
These are just as essential to breathing as the 
lungs or nostrils. It is not necessary to ad- 
monish the average student concerning the 
cleanliness of person, but it is imperative that 
the body be kept thoroughly clean. 

Bathing is not sufficient. You have noted 
the contrast between the rugged health of the 
common laborer and the emaciated look of the 
well groomed, well kept aristocrat. The aris- 
tocrat would feel disgraced did he miss his 
daily bath, while the common laborer may not 
bathe more than semi-annually. The differ- 
ence is this : The manual labor of the latter 
is sufficient to cause violent perspiration, cleans- 
ing the tube from the inside outward and this 
is nature's process, while the aristocrat cleanses 
'The outside of the platter." 

Perspiration is very necessary for perfect 
health. If your occupation does not occasion 
profuse sweating, then use artificial means 
such as the cabinet or Turkish bath. The stu- 

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dent who has enjoyed a Turkish bath will re- 
member how splendid and invigorated he felt 
afterwards but possibly never thought of the 
reason. All the pores of the skin were opened 
and consciously or unconsciously he breathed 
through them, thus permitting a fuller circula- 
tion of the breath throughout the body, and re- 
member that the breath is the Father carrying 
the vital spark or the "I" of Spirit. 

To reach the bones with this life giving 
breath it is first necessary to go through some 
exercise that will not only stretch each muscle 
of the body but at the same time stretch and 
loosen all the joints. It is of no consequence 
what method of exercise you employ just so 
you get the result. This done, now place the 
feet together and relax at the ankles so that 
the body swings free. Without giving any 
thought to the body relative to any particular 
place or location, imagine it to be as full of 
holes as a sieve, including the bones in your 
picture. Now imagine the breath rushing in 
and out through these holes as you inhale and 
exhale. In a short time you will notice a 
rhythmic rising and falling, an in and out move- 

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ment over the entire body, it has begun to 
respond to Medulla breathing. 

Such a light and airy feeling will overtake 
you that you will be tempted to continue the 
process, but remember that you must approach 
this in easy stages, eventually arriving at the 
place where it will become habitual and you 
will not have to think in order to accomplish 
the result. Use this exercise daily, early in 
the morning being the best hour, and you will 
be continually supplying the storehouse upon 
which nature draws for the manifestation of 
organic life. 

It is now apparent to the student that in 
either the art of speaking or singing, the bones 
and muscles are accessories that must be perfect- 
ly adjusted before we can perfectly operate the 
instrument. You may liken yourself unto a 
blooded racehorse ready for the struggle. He 
is conscious of having been victor and so long as 
the thought of victory possesses him he is con- 
scious of supremacy and will win. But suppose 
he should think of a shoe becoming lose, instant- 
ly he has connected himself in thought with a 
hindering and destructive current and the 
thought is distracted and divided between the 

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race and some untoward incident and the re- 
sult can but manifest in his effort. Of course, 
in the illustration we have endowed the horse 
with the power to think that our meaning 
might be made more clear. 

The study of voice culture, as with Medulla 
breathing, must be approached in easy stages, 
the progress being based upon the systematic 
development of the three essential conditions 
that enter into every phase of life, cause, opera- 
tion and effect. We hear much about cause 
and effect, but little about the method of opera- 
tion of the cause. 

1. Let Physiology represent the instru- 
ment. 

2. Let Art represent the playing upon the 
instrument. 

3. Let Psychology represent the intelligent 
application of the second to the first. 

This classification will insure a scientific 
progression in our studies and teach the student 
from the beginning how to discriminate be- 
tween the instrument and the art of playing up- 
on it. The former involves more than a super- 
ficial knowledge of anotomical adjustment as 

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you have no doubt discovered ere this, while 
the latter involves the understanding, and 
proper application of voluntary breath control 
or the art of Medulla breathing. 

More than half the failures in voice culture, 
whether it be in elocution or singing are caused 
by the student practicing without an under- 
standing of the cause of tone, and the result 
is, that the effect or tone can but be unnatural. 



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Chapter XIII. 

THE TRINITY. 

The perusal of this chapter will involve much 
study and thought on the part of the student 
because of the exhaustive treatise the subject 
demands. 

The principle of the trinity is apparent in 
all things manifest. Your attention was casu- 
ally invited to this principle in another chapter, 
but it is our purpose now to enter more through- 
ly into the subject. 

Father, Son, Spirit characterize the God- 
head. Following the law that like begets like, 
all that proceeds from this source must reflect 
this principle of the trinity. Man is a trinity 
in his unity, body, soul, spirit. 

His body is a trinity, bone, flesh and blood. 
A tree is made up of wood, bark and leaf. The 

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product of the tree is fruit, peel and seed. So 
in Vibratory intoning, three essentials enter 
into the art. The instrument, the art of play- 
ing upon the instrument and intelligence that 
applies the second to the first. 

First we shall discuss the instrument. What 
folly it would be for you to invite your friends 
to a rehearsal, and after their arrival inform 
them that you had no instrument upon which 
to render your music. This is exactly what 
they are doing who ignore the physical body 
or the instrument through which Infinity seeks 
expression. 

Your physical body is the only mode or 
manner through which the Self-Existent can 
express itself in human form. The instru- 
ment was perfect in the conception of the Self- 
Existent, but man HAS NOT ARRIVED or 
filled up the measure of that conception. Man 
is becoming, he is yet in the process of creation. 
He is struggling toward the goal of perfection, 
which can only be reached through the process 
of appropriating and discarding. Appropriat- 
ing that whch is feasible and makes for the 
improvement of the instrument, and discarding 

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that which is injurious and makes for its un- 
doing. 

In other words the instrument is perfect in 
conception and manifestation, but man has 
not learned to play upon it. No two blades of 
grass are exactly alike, no two leaves of the 
forest, no two grains of sand though their 
number is infinite. So there are no two people 
that are exactly alike in disposition and form. 
That which is food for one may be poison to 
another, hence man is groping to find in nature 
that which exactly meets his individual needs. 

Just as the grass and leaves, though infinite 
in variety, yet each leaf and blade find in the 
elements that which meets their requirements 
as grass or leaf, so man must find the same 
thing and discover the quantity he may intro- 
duce into his system without causing inhar- 
mony. 

Contrast the emaciate and underfed with the 
corpulent and overfed of the race and it must 
occur to you that something is wrong. Nature 
contains all that is necessary for the perfect 
and exact nourishment of each, one is indulging 
a certain food that overstimulates while the 

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other is using a food that is out of harmony 
with the requirements of their system. 

We hold, with Dr. Geo. W. Carey, noted 
author on the science of Biochemistry, that the 
postulate is true, microbes are not the cause of 
disease BUT THE PRODUCT OF DIS- 
EASE. But the average physician proceeds to 
retard the work of nature by administering 
some nostrum to kill the microbe. Nature re- 
moves a putrifying carcass by the indefatigable 
labor of the maggot, but when she attempts 
the same process in the human body through 
the microbe we proceed to improve her method 
and impede her progress. We have long held 
it to be true that disease is not the presence of 
something in the body, BUT THE LACK OF 
SOMETHING. 

A plant withers and dies because of the 
lack of something. The soil is unsuited for 
its particular requirement, too much shade, too 
much water, too much light or something of 
this character. Too much shade is a LACK 
of light, too much water, the LACK of the 
absence of moisture. So in the body, some- 
thing is lacking when we fail to express perfect 
physical life. 

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Everything necessary for the perfect mani- 
festation of perfect physical health is imminent 
in the universe, it is our problem to find and 
appropriate that which perfectly meets our IN- 
DIVIDUAL need. Recall what was said to 
you in a previous chapter relative to the "King- 
dom' ' or dwelling place. 

One may observe every law relative to sani- 
tation and bodily exercise, yet inhumanly abuse 
their temple or body through eating and drink- 
ing that which is not harmonious to their in- 
dividual requirement. 

Disease is caused by the interference of the 
natural functions of the body. This is the re- 
sult of a cessation or clogging somewhere in 
the system. This cessation or clogging is 
caused by our ignorance. We are withholding 
something nature needs in her work or we are 
introducing that she cannot use in our case, 
either is fatal to perfect health. You do not 
wonder now that the Great Master said, "Seek 
first the KINGDOM" or dwelling place, or the 
perfect expression of health in the kingdom or 
body. 

These "Other things are added" in the meas- 
ure that w T e prepare the temple or kingdom for 

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their reception. In fact they add themselves 
when we have perfectly prepared the instru- 
ment. 

If we as a race, did not dwell so much in the 
past and learned to "Let the dead bury the 
dead" we would make rapid strides toward per- 
fection. You have been taught that each cell 
in the body houses or contains a thought. This 
is why we are able to recall things. The mul- 
tiplicity of nerves serve as an avenue to the 
brain and report to consciousness what we have 
stored in the particular cell they serve. 

Now suppose that through the faculty we call 
memory, they report something to conscious- 
ness that we would forget. The moment it 
is reported seize upon a constructive thought 
to replace it and depend upon nature to build 
a cell in the place of the old cell that is thus 
emptied out, and the new cell will vibrate with 
the increased rate of motion or life that your 
new thought warrants or merits. This is how 
you increase the vibration or life of the thought 
body living in the cells, and each cell receives 
the same ratio of the life impulse. 

There is present in the brain both white and 
gray substance, one outside and the other in- 

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side. As a thought passes through the brain 
it empties the brain cells of their nerve fluid, 
so that the cell falls down or collapses. This 
is the reason that if we stay awake a sufficient 
number of hours we "Fall" asleep. The brain 
cells have become exhausted of their nerve 
fluid. Under about eight or ten hours sleep 
nature refills them and we awake to again be- 
come active. 

Now we are not burying the dead or for- 
getting scientifically, if we dwell in thought 
on the past, permittng the old thought to again 
register in the thought body and find lodge- 
ment in the cellular construction of our temple. 
Do you not see that we are just travelling 
around in a circle? 

We are prone to dwell on thoughts of anx- 
iety, worry, grief or disappointment. This 
character of thought causes a chemical action 
to take place in the brain whereby an infinitesi- 
mal calcareous atom is deposited on the thin 
membrane lining of the cells affected by the 
thought. The continued practice of this char- 
acter of thought will eventually cause such a 
precipitation of this calcareous substance that 
the cells of the brain become hardened or atro- 

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phiecl and fail to fall down or collapse, so that 
they can be refilled by nature and insomnia is 
the result. 

This was the trouble with the Gadarene de- 
moniac who was healed by the Great Master. 
The cells of the brain had become atrophied 
and memory was rushing to and fro through 
these "Tombs' ' in the skull. 

If you will study this process you may learn 
how to displace the old thought you would 
forget and replace it with thoughts worthy of 
habitation in the temple of the living God. 

Our colossal blunder in preparing the instru- 
ment for the wondrous symphony of life, lies 
in our inclination to doubt. Let us see if we 
cannot make it just a little plainer. Mind 
functioning through the brain in the skull 
is guided or controlled by reason. The same 
force or energy functioning through the solar 
plexus or second brain is the voice of the 
KNOWER or intuitive self. Shall we listen 
to the voice of reason, or shall we listen to the 
voice of the KNOWER? Here is the point 
where we doubt, the besetting sin of the race, 
seizes us with all its fury, even causing us to 
doubt whether we really hear the voice of the 

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KNOWER. And yet if you will get still and 
listen, you will hear the voice of reason itself 
thundering with all its power, adjuring you to 
listen to the voice of the KNOWER. Then 
from the standpoint of pure reason, is it not 
the reasonable thing to do ? 

It is apparent now to the sincere student 
that the more virile and dynamic we are in 
thought, the higher becomes the rate of motion 
or vibration of the thought body, and the higher 
the vibration or life present in the thought body, 
the greater measure of life is communicated 
to the cellular construction of the temple. 

The virility of a thought determines the 
longevity of the cell it inhabits. Hence a very 
wicked man may live to be old in years, while 
one whom we regard as good, might pass out 
prematurely. You naturally ask the cause. 
It is because the former was dynamic and posi- 
tive while the latter was weak and negative in 
thought. Be positive, dynamic and virile in 
thought and it will reflect in the cellular con- 
struction of your body, but be certain that you 
are thinking on the constructive side of life. 
Those who are timorous and diffident in action 
are first timorous and diffident in thought, 

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and if you searched for the reason, back of it 
all you would find the spectre of fear. 

Job suffered bodily ills, was bereft of family 
and possessions because of his fear or negative 
thought. When he became positive and dy- 
namic enough to demand of the Infinite, his 
last clays were better than the first. 

As a manifestation of the Self-Existent you 
are heir to all that the Self-Existent has that 
makes for the perfect expression of perfect 
physical health. Demand it in no uncertain 
terms. Demand it as a son has the legitimate 
right to demand of a father. Demand it as 
the manifest demanding of the manifestor. 
Demand it as the created thing demands of the 
Creator. This is your birthright, your priv- 
ilege, nay, it is your duty because you owe it to 
the Creator to be the best possible instrument 
that it is in your power to become. 

Then cease the abuse of the temple today 
and begin with wholesome and constructive 
thinking to build a temple that will respond to 
the fullest measure and pass the General In- 
spector of the universe. 

You may think it a long and toilsome jour- 
ney, but remember that a Creamona or a Strad- 

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ivarius was not built in a day. You might 
purchase a machine made violin that was made 
in a few hours but your best effort to play upon 
it would result in a squeak. So this temple or 
body that goes up without the sound of hammer 
or saw is not built in a day or by spasmodic 
effort. This instrument is the fruit of pro- 
longed and sustained effort by the builder or 
thought man but it cannot employ a better 
grade of material in the building than that with 
which you supply it. 

Would you enjoy health, strength, wisdom, 
knowledge, understanding and prosperity ? 
Would you build a perfect instrument upon 
which you may render the divinest raphsody 
of the skies? Then take command of your 
will today and compel your thought to function 
on the high, the pure, the lofty and richer things 
of life. This is real and effective prayer. And 
be well assured, that from whatever segment of 
the globe such a prayer arises, it registers with 
Infinite Intelligence, and the law of compensa- 
tion will reward you with an instrument cap- 
able of responding to the highest demands of 
your Creator. 

It may appeal to you as ludicrous that this is 

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genuine and scientific repentance, but such is 
the fact. Let us see. The word, repentance, 
is made up of the following. Re, meaning, 
again. Penta, meaning, five. Tuechoues, 
(pronounced tooknoos) meaning, to write. 
Then the word, repentance, really means to re- 
write the five. Rewrite the five what? The 
five senses. Hitherto we have written the cel- 
lular construcion of the instrument, or body, 
full of thought which had their origin with 
some one of the five senses functioning on the 
outer or destructive plane of life. We now re- 
pent by rewriting the cellular construction of 
the temple full of thought of a constructive 
nature. We know that this is a long way from 
the orthodox teaching concerning repentance, 
but nevertheless it is thorough, scientific and 
genuine. We have dwelled at length upon 
the perfecting of the instrument because it is the 
first requisite in the great adventure of life. 

Having dealt in some measure with the in- 
strument, let us proceed to the discussion of 
the art of playing upon it. All of us recognize 
the vast chasm that lies between the playing 
of the amatuer or beginner and that of a 
master. 

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Only by repeated effort, sustained by the de- 
termination to succeed, did the master attain 
the measure of perfection that characterizes his 
playing. His attack, his interpretation, his 
technique, in fact everything that enters into 
his rendering of music, is the fruitage of many 
long and tedious hours of practice. One can- 
not instantly lift themselves to such heights by 
an effort of the will. The student understands 
that this is part of the price paid for success, 
but "pain has been the price paid for all perma- 
nent good in the world." 

The infant knows nothing about the law of 
self preservation. It is guided and taught by 
the parents, and they are incapable of teaching 
it more than they themselves know concerning 
the instrument or the art of playing upon it. 
So we go on teaching that which some one else 
taught us without making a real and earnest 
effort to solve the question for ourselves. The 
stream of parents that are yearly pouring into 
the grave ought to be sufficient warning to 
the child that something is radically wrong. 
There is nothing wrong with the plan or in- 
strument as conceived by the Infinite, the fault 

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lies in our lack of understanding or compre- 
hension of how to play upon it. 

The master is helpless to convey to the strings 
of his violin a greater vibration than the strings 
have the capacity to receive. Just so with the 
vocal chords. Sound is produced by the breath 
passing over the vocal chords, supported by 
muscular movement or action. Remember that 
the breath contains the "I" or vital spark, but 
it cannot impart to our vocal chords a purer tone 
than the chords have the capacity to receive. 

The art of playing upon the instrument of 
course involves the perfect understanding of 
the instrument to be played upon. When our 
piano is out of tune we send for the mechani- 
cian whose business it is to properly adjust it. 
Why do we not employ the same method in 
dealing with this physical instrument? Why 
do we not go to the source of all knowledge 
through the medium of our intuitive self and 
discover the remedy for whatever defect may 
manifest? Instead of doing this we continue 
to try to play upon the instrument that is sadly 
out of tune and we wonder why we fail to 
manifest health. 

If all the cells that go to make up the upper 

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and lower lobes of the lungs were spread out, 
they would cover a room almost twelve feet 
square. The lungs cannot act in harmony with 
the law governing their being when we withhold 
from them the substance that builds and sus- 
tains the air cells of the lungs. 

In the following we shall try to teach you 
how to reach your entire body, playing upon 
the instrument intelligently. First, find your 
keynote by the method outlined for you in the 
succeeding chapter of this work. Now employ 
the entire scale or octave of this key ascending 
and descending, treating each man and organ 
of the body in their order. Begin with the 
bones. Strike the tone or note in harmony 
with your key on your piano or some musical 
instrument to get the exact and perfect pitch. 
Now intone the word, bones, six times. We use 
the number six because in the Hebrew Kaballa 
this number represents the full measure of man. 
Let the tone slide up and down the scale in ac- 
cordance with the laws outlined for you in this 
work. 

This done, proceed to treat each man of the 
body separately in the same manner. Then 
proceed to the vitals of the body. Treat the 

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heart, stomach, liver, glands, kidneys, bladder, 
gall duct, spleen, lungs and brain in the order 
named, intoning each word six times ascending 
and descending the scale. 

If you follow these directions explicitly your 
first effort will so astonish you with results 
that you will become a confirmed devotee of 
the system, for it is in harmony with the law 
governing the instrument. 

Do not imagine that because you get such 
wonderful results with your first effort that 
you have learned to play on the instrument. 
You have no more accomplished this than the 
beginner masters the violin with his first lesson, 
but the continued practice each day of this 
exercise will develop such tone and power that 
you will be overjoyed with the result. 

As you proceed with these exercises your in- 
telligence will naturally register what your 
system requires for sustenance. This is the 
natural result of the application of a natural 
law, it is the result of vibrating the entire body 
in harmony with the law. Intelligence is regis- 
ered in every atom of your body and knows its 
needs and sends the request forward to the gen- 
eral receiving station or brain. Then do not 

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be a slave to appetite, but let your appetite be 
the product of the intelligence that has resi- 
dence in your body. 

It must be apparent to you now that you can 
never excel in the art of singing or speaking 
until you first prepare the instrument and learn 
how to play upon it. Do not be deceived by 
the idea that because you possess a good voice 
that you can by employing some teacher of 
voice culture become a great prima donna 
or artist. They may succeed in teaching you 
music as far as they understand it and improv- 
ing your voice temporarily. But muscular con- 
traction is the inevitable result of such teaching 
and the final loss of a voice that might have 
become immortal, as witnesseth some of the 
modern artists who blazed as a star of the first 
magnitude in the musical world for a time and 
then sank below the horizon. 

There is no short cut to perfection and unless 
the student is ready and willing to pay the price 
they can but make a dismal failure of the at- 
tempt. When you first examined the contents 
of this book, you probably thought it contained 
much that was irrelevant to vibratory intoning, 
but if you have faithfully and studiously fol- 

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lowed its pages you have doubtless corrected 
your first impression. 

Set aside thirty minutes each day for your 
exercise and religiously keep the appointment. 
Get up thirty minutes earlier in the morning 
and go through your exercise and the whole 
day will be filled with pleasure and profit in- 
stead of dragging along and leaving you ex- 
hausted and irritated at evening. 

You will face the day and its duties with 
increased energy, a feeling of confidence and a 
spirit of bouyancy such as you have never 
known. In this frame of mind you will nat- 
urally register a higher and better character of 
thought in the cellular construction of your 
body and thus finally attain the goal of perfect 
health, as well as the consciousness of knowing 
that you are master of your thought therefore 
master of your temple, and are not subject to 
outside influences as the unillumined. 

This brings us to the third division of the 
trinity, or intelligence. There is a vast differ- 
ence between wisdom and understanding. Wis- 
dom may embrace the knowledge of conditions 
and things, but understanding is the correct 
application of that knowledge to the art of liv- 

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ing. The Wise Man asked for wisdom and 
his request was granted, but in later years it 
occured to him that there was something more 
than wisdom, hence he admonishes his son in 
the following language : "My son get wisdom, 
but with all thy getting, get understanding." 

Wisdom may embrace all there is to know 
concerning the instrument and the art of play- 
ing upon it, but without the proper under- 
standing of how to apply the latter to the 
former the result can be but one of confusion. 
We may possess wisdom and kowledge without 
understanding. Man has the wisdom and 
knowledge to perfectly construct a dynamo and 
generate the electric current, but who is there 
among us that understands its origin, essence 
or action ? Again we say, our absolute knowl- 
edge is limited to that which we are able to 
demonstrate. 

The continued practice of the exercises out- 
lined for you in this work will bring to you a 
certain degree of knowledge that can eventually 
be classed as understanding. Because you will 
be able to demonstrate to your satisfaction the 
absolute truth of the principles sought to be 
inculcated. 

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Intelligence in a greater or less degree per- 
meates all sentient life, hence the greater degree 
of life you manifest there will be a correspond- 
ing increase in intelligence. As the intelligence 
increases your horizon will expand, your under- 
standing will broaden and you will have ex- 
perienced a new birth and begin to live and not 
merely exist. 



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VIBRATORY INTONING. 

We come now to the last and very important 
lesson or chapter. You cannot go through this 
book and say this chapter is more important 
than another. There is not a chapter in the 
book that does not fill its place and teach its 
lesson and the student cannot, at the peril of 
failure, afford to slight any one of them. All 
that has gone before has been but preparatory 
to this, and if you fail it will be because you 
thought you knew more than your teachers. 
Master each principle that we have sought to 
teach you before beginning the practice of the 
Art of Arts, that of Vibratory Intoning in 
harmony with the universe and therefore in 
harmony with yourself. 

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First write your full name, including your 
mother's maiden name upon a piece of paper, 
then set aside each consonant and vowel 
in a table by themselves. If a consonant or 
vowel occurs more than once in the name it is 
necessary to write it in your table the second 
time. If a married woman, include your 
mothers maiden name, as you are as much a 
part of her as you are of your father and do 
NOT use your name by marriage, because it 
is a name that you ASSUMED at the altar. 

There will be some letters not represented 
in the scale of music, you arrive at their value 
thus: 

12 34 5 

Sun — Mercury — Venus — Mars — Jupiter 

A. B. C. D. E. 

J. K. L. M. N. 

S. T. U. V. W 

6 7 8 9 

Saturn — Uranus. — Neptune — Moon. 

F. G. H. I. 

O. P. Q. R. 

X. Y. Z. 

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Take the name, Parkington, one of the 
authors of this work for an example, and 
notice how it is worked out. The letter P, 
comes under the figure seven and under the 
planet Uranus. The letter A, under the figure 
one and under the sun. The letter R, under 
the figure nine and under the Moon, the letter 
K, under the figure two and under Mercury. 
The letter I, under the figure nine and under 
the Moon. The letter N, under the figure five 
and under Jupiter. The letter G, under the 
figure seven and under Uranus. The letter 
T, under the figure two and under Mercury. 
The letter O, under the figure six and under 
Saturn. The letter N, under the figure five 
and under Jupiter. Where a letter occurs more 
than once in a name it doubles its value or in- 
tensity. This name is made up of two parts 
Uranus, one part sun, two parts Moon, two 
parts Mercury, two parts Jupiter, one part 
Saturn. 

Now by consulting the chart in the back 
of this book you will notice the different colors 
belonging to each planet. In your imagina- 
tion mix these colors in the exact proportion 
to the parts indicated in the name, the color 

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or shade resulting from this mixture being the 
rate of motion in color of the party. If you 
cannot do this in your imagination, get a small 
box of water colors and make the experiment, 
being very careful not to use more or less than 
is indicated in the name. 

You will notice that the vowels occur in their 
order under the numbers, one, five, nine, six, 
three, which, added together and reduced to 
their lowest digit yields the figure six, which 
number represented the full measure of the man 
under the ancient Hebrew Kaballa. The letters 
W, and Y, are never used as vowels in this 
system. 

Now take the same name and put down the 
numerical value of each letter following the 
same process as you did with the planets. Add 
the total of the ten letters comprising the name 
and reduce to the lowest digit and you have 
the numerical value of the name. In this case 
the name vibrates to the number eight, embrac- 
ing the entire octave and if you compounded 
your colors correctly you will find you have 
a golden yellow. Again consulting your chart 
you will find that the planet Neptune comes 
under the figure eight and its color is the 

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Golden Yellow ruling the Liver Man in the 
body. 

Then for this party to find their true key- 
note they will BEGIN WITH THE LETTER 
C, being the first letter of the scale and count 
forward eight, thus, c, d, e, f, g, a, b, c. It is 
apparent that the keynote of this party is 
octave C. You will notice that the letter C, 
falls under the number three and under the 
planet Venus. The number three represents 
the trinity or the principle that runs through 
all creation. Cause, operation, effect. Physi- 
cal, mental, spiritual. Physiology, Psychol- 
ogy, Philosophy. Vibration, color, sound. 
Father, mother, child, etc. The planet Venus, 
as noted, embraces all that is commonly under- 
stood by the word, love. Then one whose 
keynote is the octave C, would be able to under- 
stand and apply this principle throughout the 
entire octave blending all the different tones 
and colors in perfect harmony. 

By consulting the foregoing chart you will 
discover that the letters, A, J, and S, fall under 
the figure one, under the planet, the Sun. The 
letters B, K, T, fall under the number two and 
under the planet Mercury. By glancing at 

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the chart you can find the number and planet 
under which any letter of the alphabet falls. 

At this point we will give you a short delea- 
niation of the top row of letters beginning with 
the letter A, and finshing with the letter I, and 
whatever is said of them is true regarding any 
letter found in the same row, reading from the 
top downward. Thus, the letter A, comes 
under the figure one, and under the sun, also 
the letters J and S. 

The letter A, comes under the figure one, 
and under the Sun. If this should prove to be 
your keynote, by developing Medulla breathing 
as taught you in harmony with this tone you 
will find increased circulation, bouyant health, 
a sunny disposition, initiative power, creative 
force and the power of expression will result 
from your efforts. 

The letter B, comes under the figure two 
and under Mercury. If you find the letter B, 
to be your keynote in life, by the same process as 
indicated above you develop this tone through- 
out the entire octave and you will find a dis- 
appearance of the inclination to be unsettled 
in mind, an ease of breathing and respiration 
you never thought possible, the disappearance 

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of a tendency to sudden states of depression 
and a wonderful increase in power of ex- 
pression. 

The letter C, comes under the number three 
and under the planet Venus. If this is your 
keynote, by adhering to the method outlined 
to you in this book, you will develop a tone that 
will cause you to cease the practice of many 
little things that offend and irritate your 
friends, there will be a corresponding increase 
in sunniness of disposition, the voice will lose 
much of its power to wound, there will not be 
present the tendency to become sarcastic at 
times, the complexion will become that of youth 
and you will reflect a degree of health that 
will astonish your acquaintances. 

The letter D, comes under the number four 
and under the planet Mars. If this is your 
keynote develop this tone to its fullest capacity 
and you will find a disappearance of the tend- 
ency to be sluggish at times, a creative energy 
will seize you, you will make an effort to 
bring to manifestation things that have long 
lain in your memory as dreams, there will be 
such an added impulse to all the organs of the 
body that you will reflect continuity of pur- 

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pose instead of doing things in a more or less 
desultory manner. 

The letter E, comes under the figure five and 
under the planet Jupiter. If this is your key- 
note, develop it in harmony with the laws set 
forth in this work, and you will find the tend- 
ency to overeat disappear, you will want to 
develop your talent in art, whether it be paint- 
ing, music, sculpturing, landscape gardening, 
or whatever turn of mind it may seek to mani- 
fest, it will seek to beautify the home within 
and without and you will experience such a 
spirit of restfulness and happiness as you have 
never known. 

The letter F, comes under the number six 
and under the planet Saturn. If this is your 
keynote, be very careful to follow explicitly 
the directions given you for development of 
tone, because when you learn anything it is 
very hard for you to correct it if you have 
made a mistake. You will find yourself more 
tolerant, the tendency to be severe will be lost, 
you will reflect your real self more, you will 
lose the tendency to be sombre, cold and critical 
and will see life under a much different ray. 
Your character will take on a finish and solid- 

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arity that will be the admiration of your 
friends. 

The letter G, comes under the figure seven 
and under the planet Uranus. If this is your 
keynote, let the development be by easy stages, 
more so than the ordinary key, and you will 
find a disposition to study deeply into the hid- 
den and secret things of life. Your ability to 
express will increase at a tremendous pace and 
you will perhaps want to write short stories 
that will have a ready sale because of their 
unusual character. There will be a disappear- 
ance of a tendency to hide or cover your real 
self, your society will be sought and cultivated 
by those who appreciate learning and your 
health will be all that you desire. 

The letter H, comes under the figure eight 
and under Neptune. The keynote of this 
letter is the same as A, but being a minor and 
a consonant its vibration is different. Develop 
the tone of A minor according to the method 
given and you will find a tendency to billious- 
ness disappear, your complexion will clear and 
your eyesight will improve, digestion will be- 
come normal, headaches will disappear, and you 

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will become natural and normal in habit and 
deportment. 

The letter I, comes under the figure nine and 
under the Moon. Counting backwards from 
the Moon the full octave will bring you to the 
number two and the planet Mercury. As the 
Moon reflects the light from the sun, so the I 
of you reflects the light from Mercury which 
planet rules the mind. Hence B minor is your 
keynote and reflects your real self. Cultivate 
and develop this tone and you will experience 
a poise of mind and body that you have never 
known. Your power of concentration will in- 
crease, your power to think clearly will also 
increase and you will find yourself in harmony 
with much that hitherto annoyed and depressed 
you. You will be able to solve problems that 
present themselves with comparative ease. 
* In working out your keynote you begin 
with your full name including the name of 
your mother omitting the name you assumed 
if a female and married. Now proceed to find 
the numerical value of your name following 
the method outlined in the name of Parking- 
ton, and whatever be the total look in the chart, 

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find the number and the keynote appears just 
underneath. 

The name Sara Abbott Parkington works 

out thus. S, 1, A, 1, R, 9, A, 1 1 plus 1 

plus 9 plus 1 equals 12. One plus two equals 
three. The figure three then represents the vi- 
bration of the name Sara. A, 1, B, 2, B, 2, O, 
6, T, 2 and T, 2. 1 plus 2 plus 2 plus 6, plus 2 
plus 2 equals 15. 1 plus 5 equals 6 or the vibra- 
tion of the name Abbott. P, 7, A, 1, R, 9, K, 2, 
I, 9, N, 5, G, 7, T, 2, O, 6, and N, 5. 7 plus 
1 plus 9 plus 2 plus 9 plus 5 plus 7 plus 2 plus 
6 plus 5 equals 53. 5 plus 3 equal 8 or the 
vibration of the name Parkington. Now add 
the numerical value of Sara to that of Abbott 
and add the vibration of the name Parkington, 
thus 3 plus 6 plus 8 equal 17. 1 plus 7 equal 
8, or the number indicating the keynote. Look 
under the number eight and then read what is 
said concerning the letter H. This is the 
method to pursue in determining your own key- 
note. 

Having this, and following the laws taught 
you in this work you will soon learn to vibrate 
in harmony with the universe and experience 
the power of Vibratory intoning. 

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Names of the planets, their color and their 
correspondents in the body. 

Name Color Correspondent 

Sun White Heart 

Mercury Quicksilver 



Venus 

Mars 
Jupiter 



Bright straw 



Red 
Green 



Saturn Blue 

Uranus Ultra-Violet 

Neptune Golden Yellow 

Moon ' Silver 



Solar plexus and 
vocal chords. 

Kidneys, Throat, 
except vocal 
chords. 

Genitals. 

Stomach and intes- 
tines. 

Spleen and the 
bones. 

Lungs. 

Liver. 

Brain. 



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POEMS 
By Phylotus. 



THE CHEMISTRY OF LOVE. 

The chemist of Love 
Takes this perishing mould, 
And though made out of clay, 
Transmutes it to Gold. 



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LIFE WITHOUT LOVE. 

Life without love, is the night without stars, 
The day without the bright sun in the sky, 
Like music without the measure of bars, 
Like the lost power of sight to the eye. 
Love to the heart is like dewdrops of pearl 
That nestle so close to its petals of gold, 
Life without love is a meaningless whirl 
That stifles and chokes the breath of the soul, 
Life without love is like feast without guest, 
Like orphans that wander a star-bereft sky, 
Life without love missed the highest and best, 
Life without love must sicken and die. 



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A WISH. 

Sweeter than roses, or lilies white, 
Brighter and higher than stars of light, 
Bridging the depths of the deep blue sea, 
Reaching from time through eternity- 
Greater than monarch or conqueror crowned, 
Reaching the universe, within, around, 
'Tis a gem that's called "The crown of Love." 
Fashioned by the Master Mind above, 
And I wish that you enframed may be, 
In a Love that is known to such as He. 



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SHADOWS. 

The shadow is, because there first is light, 
And it exists because the first endures, 
Why do men grope in grossest night 
When only shadow dark allures? 
Because vile sin with their deeds are mixed, 
They linger in the thick'ning cloud, 
The outer man on the outer fixed, 
Hears not the Spirit man that cries aloud. 
And so the shadows thickly fall 
Across the path their foot-steps tread, 
They lose the real, forget the "AH" 
And mingle with the fallen dead. 



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CREATION. 

Silence, undisturbed by thought, 
Throughout the universe held sway, 
The Master Mind a vision caught 
There dawned a grander day, 
A day, in whose creative mind, 
Vast worlds sprang into space, 
Stars linking with their kind, 
And rushing comets interlace. 
Solar systems knew their bound, 
And moved in harmony precise, 
Discordant notes were nowhere found, 
Beneath Omniscient eyes. 
He thought again, and out man stood, 
With perfect motion shod, 
Out from universal motherhood, 
Came the masterpiece of God. 



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WHO DO I LOVE? 

I turn and ask my heart 

To tell its story, true, 

To itself, all things apart — 

And then I know, 'tis you, 'tis you. 

I ask my spirit whence its strength, 

To be, to dare and do, 

My love would measure any length 

For you, dear heart, for you. 

When storms across my pathway swirl, 

And thorns would grow, where daisies 

grew, 
A form I see above the whirl, 
'Tis you dear heart, dear heart, 'tis you. 
With all thy love, I am content, 
And in thy love my soul is free, 
Heart answers heart, and loves cement, 
Binds me to you and you to me. 
I know a spot where love bestows 
Its inner self, like falling dew, 
The outer sees, but the inner KNOWS, 
So my soul KNOWS it loves but YOU. 



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MUSINGS. 

Like the waves from the mighty deep, 

Which, in their dumb way speak 

And tell of the depths from which they sprung. 

So my thoughts arise in me 

Coming from God's mighty sea, 

And tell of brighter worlds to come. 

As they break upon the strand, 
Washing white each grain of sand, 
And then roll back into the deep, 
So my thoughts burst on my soul 
Making the imperfect whole 
Then pass on, but not to sleep. 

For as the waves mix with the sea, 

Dancing on its bosom free, 

Or sink down to rise again. 

So as my thoughts rush on through space, 

With other minds to interlace 

Let me sing a glad refrain. 



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SILENCE. 

I had rather live in quiet peace, 
Alone, within the silence and my thought, 
Where murmurings of the flesh may cease 
And only that survive which Spirit wrought, 
Free from the wrangle and the jangle of the 

world. 
To live in such a world as this, 
Just long enough to put my armor on, 
Would bring me unalloyed bliss 
And haste the coming of my dawn; 
Free from the wrangle and the jangle of the 

world. 
Let me withdraw just long enough 
To well adjust my spirit self to Him, 
And then the way may be both bold and rough, 
There can no storms of earth my spirit vision 

dim, 
And I will not hear the wrangle and the jangle 

of the world. 
"Then what you are will speak so loud 
I cannot hear just what you say," 
For the spirit man sees thru the shroud 
Of personality and clay; 
And my ears are deaf, to the wrangle and the 

jangle of the world. 
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WHISPERINGS. 

Thy forest has a thousand ways, 

And each bird sings its different lays, 

Nor sounds an alien note. 

For here in this mighty wood, 

None can know thee but the good, 

And read what God has wrote. 

All nature is in tune, 

In woodland and on dune, 

For here, no discord may transgress, 

Here the Master Artist weaves, 

His gorgeous colors in the leaves, 

And silently awaits our thankfulness. 

Oh, that I could this lesson learn, 

Thy perfect rhythm to discern, 

And move with Silent tread; 

Far up the heights, where 'twould unfold, 

His fullest pleasures yet untold, 

And be in pleasant pastures led. 

To drink from Lifes' unfailing fount, 

Where endless ages do not count, 

To man's unfolding soul ; 

To eat that fruit from the Tree of Life, 

Free from envying and strife, 

And I am at last made whole. 

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A VISION. 

I see a vision, coming nearer, 
It tunes a vibrant chord in me, 
Years go by, 'tis growing dearer, 
It is a world that is to be. 
It is a world where men forget 
All sorrow, grief and dismal pain, 
Where only Love will Love beget 
And music sing Love's sweet refrain. 
Walls of steel and stone unsealing, 
For no longer men invoke 
An outward force for inward healing, 
Men have learned to bear His yoke. 
It is a world where men are doing 
Everything in His great plan, 
Contentment sweet forever wooing, 
And men meet as "Man to man." 
Men are known by what they are 
And not by what they seem to be, 
Caste and class erect no bar 
In this world that is to be. 



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Employed and employer too, 
Meet around one festal board, 
And everything in me and you 
Sits at the shrine of Truth, adored. 
Now men vote as they one time prayed, 
And the earth is filled with yoemen free, 
This is the day so long delayed, 
This is the world that is to be. 



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DEATH. 

Why do men stand in abject terror 

Of thy sure oncoming? 

'Tis because of their past error, 

And all life's summing. 

Thou, when rightly understood, 

And proudly met, 

Bringeth only tidings good, 

With all sails set. 

Sails that only bear me nearer, 

To the Goal, 

To the One who is more dearer, 

To my soul. 

Then why this wild distress ? 

Vain regret. 

Gladly, in all earnestness, 

Pay the debt. 

Knowing that 'tis but a shadow, 

In the way. 

And He "Turneth it to mornings," 

Golden day. 



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Then forever in His keeping, 

As we go, 

Let us gladly do the reaping, 

What we sow. 

Sowing only the creative 

In the field, 

Knowing it is multiplative 

In the yield. 



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A CALL. 

Oh, Thou immortal spirit of man, 

Arise from thy lethargic sleep, 

And move, as only a free spirit can 

Out into the fathomless deep. 

The deep of all thought and all action, 

The deep of all knowledge, all truth, 

Where Law is unknown to infraction, 

And men live in perennial youth. 

In the realm where all that God is, 

Man is, for he is His son, 

The shoreless sea of all truth his, 

For he and the Father are one. 

Vibrations ring true to their color, 

Man feels it, and now understands, 

That each is adjusted to other 

As man < follows where the Master has 

planned. 
Oh world, long lost in disorder, 
Oh world in darkness and pain, 
Come back from thy record of error, 
Come back into Eden again. 



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MEDITATION. 

When the clouds shall lower upon you, 
And the way may seem hedged up, 
When human trust shall prove untrue, 
And you drink woe's bitter cup, 
When the sun goes down, and darkest night 
Swift erects her ancient bars, 
Know that "whatever is, is right," 
And the night brings out the stars. 

Then Luna shines in full-orbed glory, 
Her silvery rays engulf the earth, 
And men may learn the old sweet story, 
No night so dark that has not worth; 
Pain and anguish, grief and sorrow, 
On thy quivering spirit jars, 
But the sun will shine tomorrow, 
And the night bring out the stars. 

When thy darkest night is pending, 
And thou seemest all alone, 
Know that it will have an ending, 
When the shadows all have flown, 
When the day-king comes in power 
And unlocks night's binding bars ; 
That may be the brightest hour, 
But the night brings out the stars. 

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THE MYSTIC RIVER. 

On the River of Silence we met, 

And drifted beyond the dark vale 

Of creeds and forms that time set 

In a shadowed and mystical vale. 

The earth receeded from view 

With all of its tinsel and show, 

We looked for a world that was new 

Unfettered by sorrow and woe. 

We followed the course of the river, 

And heard not the voices that pled, 

'Though sometimes the human would quiver, 

We knew 'twas the voice of the dead. 

There were rapids and cataracts steep, 

But the Pilot in safety passed by, 

And so we passed on to the deep, 

To the deep, encircled in "I". 

Led here by that beautiful stream, 

Unruffled by "Sound or by foam", 

All things are as real as they seem, 

And together in Silence we roam. 

We search the depth of our being, 

And plead for the Light from above, 

And are blessed with the rapture of seeing, 

That "ALL" is in Infinite Love. 

And so from all bondage released, 

With sails swung full to the breeze, 

Until God and His laws have all ceased, 

We will dwell in its harbors and leas. 

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CRYSTALOTUS. 

Like a flower born in June 
Shedding forth its rich perfume 
Let your soul be all attune 
To the willing of your God. 
Let there be no hesitating, 
Let there be no vascillating, 
Only radiance scintillating 
As you pass beneath the Rod. 

Light, shining from divinity 
Will lead you through infinity 
And bring you your affinity, 
As you search the sky above. 
Then on through futurity, 
Safe in God's security, 
With no incongruity 
You shall dwell with them in Love. 



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Though they leave this tenament, 
Know, 'tis but a cerement 
And the soul is not content, 
In this dwelling house of clay. 
Like the Eagle, soaring higher, 
'Tis but fulfilling its desire 
And is only drawing nigher, 
To the One who is the Way. 

Angelic hosts attending, 

These two Souls so sweetly blending 

On their way to God ascending, 

Minister with loving hand. 

And when their work on earth is done, 

And they meet the Perfect SON, 

Lo, these two are ONLY ONE, 

Having reached the Promised Land. 



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TO THE WOMAN WHO UNDERSTANDS 

I searched across the ages, 
I sought 'midst high and low, 
I looked among the sages, 
To see if they might know, 
The pearl I sought with weeping, 
Free from error's bands, 
Her noble birthright keeping: 
This woman who understands. 

Free from the world's illusion 
Free from man-made ties, 
Free from the Old Delusion, 
Free from the Ancient Lies. 
Safe in her own clear sphere, 
Bathed in the Truth she stands, 
No gift to man more dear, 
Than this woman who understands. 



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I refuse the shell they proffer, 
Though the shell be a dream divine, 
She has everything to offer, 
And I seek to call it mine. 
Stripped of all veneering, 
Clean as the oceans strand, 
Into the future peering, 
This woman who understands. 

So I seek not the tinsels glitter, 

Nor the sham of a painted skin ; 

A counterfeit more bitter, 

Than the shackles of a damning sin, 

So above the world and its wail, 

I wait for the clasping of hands, 

I wait for the glittering sail, 

Of that woman who understands. 



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A WARNING. 

Amid the gloom and disorder, that circles the 
spirit of man, 

There standeth one close to the border, that 
can help as none other can, 

Men grope in darkness and terror, choosing 
the wrong for the right, 

And so they go on in their error, and the bless- 
ing goes by in the night. 

They struggle and strive for the glory that per- 
ishes e'er it is born 

And over and over the story, is writ on their 
faces so worn. 

They heed not the voice of the ages, that calls 
them from darkness to light, 

And as inward the tempest still rages, the bless- 
ing goes by in the night. 

They cry at the fate which surrounds them, and 
rail at the God of the skies, 

They forged the chains that hath bound them, 
they did it — "Having not eyes/' 

They curse the day of their horning, and smirch 
with their withering blight, 

To them their cometh no morning, for the bless- 
ing goes by in the night. 
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FREEDOM. 

Loosed from the moorings of a sinning world, 

I turned toward the open sea, 
My flag of Truth at the mast unfurled, 

And my spirit sings, for at least 'tis free. 
The Word is the compass that shapes my 
course, 

The Life is the chart that guides the helm, 
And the Master Mind of the universe, 

Will stay the waves that would o'erwhelm. 

I saw the wreckage of drifting hulls, 

On death struck sharp — a hidden rock ; 
The passions of men, like hungry gulls, 

Fed on the crew that felt the shock. 
Oh, woeful wreck, Oh, piteuos sight, 

That men forget the God who rules, 
And steer their course by a treacherous light 

A Will o' the Wisp of stagnant pools. 



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The Master leads to an open way, . 

Where the sea is calm and the breezes blow, 
It is never night, but always day, 

And the way is plain — to those who know, 
The daring soul that tries its wings, 

To cross the circling ages span, 
Will come at last where the spirit sings, 

Himself a Master, and a MAN. 



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TWELVE. 

In the far off ages of the long ago, 

The clock of time struck one; 

And man moving on his journey, slow, 

The circle of the dial begun. 

Who knows how many weary centuries went by 

To graves, in the long departed past, 

While man, in his embryonic state there lie, 

Until the dawn should break at last. 

And as the faintest ray of truth flits through 

The clouds that lowered upon his way, 

The clock of time told the hour of two, 

First harbinger of the dawning day. 

The path led on by the door of death, 

And those he loved, passed through its portals 

dark, 
His hopes, his fears, hung on the passing of a 

breath, 
But through it all there shone the glimmer of 

a Spark. 
The heart-strings snapped and reason reeled 
As the penalty, transgressions law exact, 
And through the dark domain of death there 

pealed 
A groan, as he suffered on his self-created 

rack. 

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A groan that shook the universe, and God 
Bent down to hear the faintest whisper, man 
Embalmed with tears, and uttered with a sob; 
Then the clock of time told the hour of three. 
Oh, the mighty tides that come and go, 
Of joys, and hopes, of fears and sorrows gloom, 
Would God, man had not willed it so, 
And thus escaped the terrors of the tomb. 
The long drawn struggle waxes fiercer still 
As he trudges on the lengthening way, 
And in darkness takes the path, against the will 
Within, that would the higher law obey. 
And so he winds his way in gloomy night, 
With heart oppressed, and on the path, foot- 
sore, 
Slowly moving toward the Star of Light; 
And the clock of time tells the hour of four. 
Pestilence and war, come down in thick'ning 

cloud, 
And choke the path of advancing peace and 

love, 
Out of Death's dark warp, he weaves for life, 

a shroud, 
And sees not the olive branch, or dove. 
Earthquakes rend the rocking earth apart, 
And shatter all ambitions' dearest dreams, 

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His temples fall, and falling, break the heart 
Of him, whose eyes run down in streams. 
Streams that have their origin within the 

blood, 
While yet the suffering frame is still alive, 
And yet there is no staying of the flood ; 
And the clock of time tells the hour of five. 
Deceit and envy, Jealousy and lies, 
Together with black murder mix their sin, 
Out of the darkest depths of hell he cries, 
Where transgressions law, unpitying, places 

him. 
Is there none to hear the plea of a repentant 

heart, 
Who would discard the ways that brought him 

low? 
Who will rend this binding law of sin apart 
And teach the path wherein he ought to go ? 
Oh, man, within thyself is hid the light, 
If only thou, will the objective mind transfix, 
And listen to "The man within", who knows 

the right; 
Let the clock of time tell the hour of six. 
The deepest depth on the circled dial is passed, 
And now begins the upward journey to the top, 
The faintest glow of morning breaks at last 

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And may there be no halting, lingering stop. 
'Tis true, that trials heavy, yet beset the way, 
And would discourage him who seeks the best, 
But o'er the rugged hills there comes advanc- 
ing day 
For the tallest peaks now catch the glint upon 

their crest. 
In all thy strife, there shall with you abide 
A faith, that will thy strongest trials leaven, 
And through the darkest cloud, walk by thy 

side; 
Let the clock of time tell the hour of seven. 
Misunderstood, and by some doubted, 
Is a lot, that to your portion falleth due, 
But within thyself, all foes are routed, 
If to thyself thou art always true. 
Patience must possess your soul, and strengthen 

thee, 
When in the path you find obstructions bold, 
When the outer man is blind then the inner 

man can see, 
And will a path to the outer man unfold. 
Then as you climb toward the utmost goal, 
Let the inner man, the wheel, manipulate, 
And it shall be the saving of your soul ; 
Let the clock of time tell the hour of eight. 

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The way grows brighter now, and yet there 

lurks 
Within the hidden path, the Serpents tongue, 
Watching those, who from their bounden duty 

shirk, 
And from their hearts is further sorrow wrung. 
Man learns his lesson slow. Experience no 

bargain makes, 
But the last farthing of indebtedness demands, 
If wilfulness or ignorance fathers the mistakes, 
And thy own works is fruitage of thine own 

hands, 
Three quarters of the circle now is done, 
And man is tempted here to drink the wine, 
Stay thy hand, the victory is not won ; 
Let the clock of time tell the hour of nine. 
As man draws nearer to the fire, intenser is the 

heat, 
And faster doth the withering flame consume, 
So as we come closer to Truth's blazing seat 
The outer man, to sin, becomes immune. 
The power is man's, to do, or dare to be, 
What he will, or will not, in his life express, 
The outer, or the inner man, will see 
All good, or empty husks and nothingness. 

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Within the Silence shall the MAN discover 

Truth, 
For the image of his God was placed there, 

when 
Man dwelled in his element, with innocence 

and youth; 
Now the clock of time tells the hour of ten. 
Now hotter is the fire, and fiercer is the flame, 
That purges all the dross and separates the 

gold, 
But as earth's purest gem from the hottest 

furnace came, 
So the inner man must the outer man unfold. 
To understand that hidden mystic law, 
That fire consumes that which is linked with 

death, 
So we must pass the way which God foresaw 
When He created man, by the breathing of a 

breath. 
When the fire completes its work, and there is 

nothing left, 
Unfit to occupy a place in an exalted heaven, 
Then man may stand alone, of ignorance bereft 
And the clock of time may tell the hour eleven. 
As in this closing hour the thief outcried, 
And pled for grace in his extremest woe, 

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So, when the outer man in solitude has died, 
The inner man, "The better way" will show. 
Then that Omniscient eye that scans Immensity, 
Will lend a light, that casts no shadow or a 

cloud, 
But illuminates the universe with its intensity, 
Where not anything that staineth is allowed. 
'Tis here that all the purified may touch high 

noon, 
No longer in the depths to toil and delve, 
The power is in THYSELF. Learn, late or 

soon. 
Now let the clock tell the hour of twelve. 



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FUTURITY. 

In departed ages, when time was young, 
The God-head loved, and a child was born, 
Its likeness pure, on the form was hung, 
And its image was like the light of morn. 
It dwelled in a realm of eternal bliss, 
And knew no thought of a withering blast, 
The zephyrs touched with the softest kiss, 
And the song-birds sang their lay as they 

passed. 
They sang of a dream that God conceived 
When He came to anchor in the port of love, 
It, the richest blessings of heaven received, 
For they knew no richer in the realms above. 
'Twas a gift that only the Gods could give, 
Replete with life, and with pleasures full 
'Twas the perfect way which man should live, 
As pure as snow and as white as wool. 
But the Tempter came and the image fell 
Far down the heights 'pon which it stood, 
And farther, farther to the depths of hell, 
It found the vile, but lost the good. 
In a maize of sin and doubt and greed 
Tangled with hate and entwined with strife, 
To the highest and best it gave no heed, 
For it had lost its hold on Eternal Life. 

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So the Word came down in the guise of Love 
And dwelled with men in a house of clay, 
'Twas as innocent as the Turtle Dove 
And came to lead in the better way. 
Across the path the storm-winds blew, 
And hailstones fell enwrapped with fire, 
The lusts of men their virtues slew, 
For they linked their minds with lust's desire. 
The path they trod was strewn with death, 
And misery stalked across the land, 
Suffering tinged their painful breath 
And their hopes were built on sifting sand. 
When he came at last to extremest woe, 
And would with his WILL to his Teacher 

turn, 
He found that his Maker had made him so, 
That he must sit at the shrine of Truth and 

learn. 
'Twas a lesson of Love that the Word would 

teach, 
As deep and as high and as wide as God, 
That w r ould from the highest to the lowest 

reach, 
But every child must feel the "Rod." 
'Twas their's to grope in a night of sin, 
'Twas the price they paid for the woeful fall, 

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The toll that all pay who would "enter in" 
"For the trail of the Serpent is over them all." 
At last there bloomed a beautiful flower, 
Enshrined with Love and blessed with Grace, 
She nobler grew each passing hour, 
And the light of His love shone from her face. 
She ignored the false and embraced the true, 
Her eye was fixed on the distant goal, 
She knew that TO KNOW was to live anew, 
And find the balm for a wounded soul. 
Although the path was strewn with grief, 
And the rocks were sharp and the pain intense, 
She knew that the Truth would bring relief 
And to her soul sweet recompense. 
And so she walked with a stately tread, 
Through a sea of hearts that bid her stay, 
But she knew they were of the living dead, 
And she would not turn from the "Better way." 
Till at last she reached the mountain height, 
Where the Truth outshines the Solar Sun, 
And His children dwell in a bursting light, 
That shines from the throne of The Holy One. 
'Twas not in a land beyond this sphere, 
Where she attained this wondrous birth, 
But by overcoming in the battle here, 
She won her heaven by conquering earth. 

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Many there came, and pressed their suit, 

And thought in her, they'd possess the "All." 

They were budless trees, without the fruit, 

And tinctured and tarnished by the fearful fall. 

Till at last I saw a pilgrim strong, 

Plodding along his way intent, 

Rising beyond the babbling throng, 

Determined to scale the battlement. 

His ears were deaf and his eyes were blind, 

To the lures of life that men call sweet, 

For he sought the higher life to find, 

And would sit and learn at the Master's feet, 

The road was rough and the thorns were keen, 

That bruised and pierced the man of flesh, 

But "Ear hath not heard, eye hath not seen," 

The power that spurred to toil afresh. 

The fire was hot, but hotter grew, 

As he approached his soul's desire, 

The inner man, the outer slew 

And cast the dross in consuming fire. 

Fair hearts across his pathway tread, 

And plead for just one hour of bliss, 

But "Thou shalt not," his Master said, 

And he would not lose yon world for this. 

The path was rough and sometimes dark, 

That led to the light beyond the earth 

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But the man within 'Tressed toward the mark", 

For "The Prize" that had intrinsic worth. 

I saw him climb, 'till on his brow, 

There fell the light from the orb of Truth, 

That lighted the path, and taught him how 

To live again, and renew his youth. 

He stood at last on the height beyond, 

Where all that was, was only good, 

And everything that the soul is fond 

Flow r ed from the Love of the Fatherhood. 

I saw him search this land of rest 

With an eye that saw beyond times' span, 

He looked for her whom the Gods had blest ; 

The perfect woman for the perfect man. 

They met on a plane removed from sense 

Of all that the outer man enjoyed, 

They knew that the lasting recompense 

Was to do the will that God employed. 

So they strolled through bowers that dripped 

with myrrh, 
And heard the songs of paradise, 
She loved but him, he loved but her, 
For they were but one, in the eyes of Christ. 
The path leads on, Truth is their guide, 
The Eternal God, security. 
This is the Fount that opens wide, 
And its shores are all Futurity. 

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FAITH. 

(These lines were suggested by two little sparrows, 
building their nest in the mouth of a cannon, 
mounted in Pershing square, Los Angeles, Calif.) 

This iron-throated monster, no longer deals 

with death, 
For stilled is the hand that fed it, and hushed 

mad passions breath. 
And so in simple faith, you build a place 

called home, 
Would men could learn this lesson, and let 

blind strife alone. 

But with the coming years, as Truth spreads 

out her plan, 
We will have done with fears, and deal as 

"Man to man." 
The world will stand in wonder, for martial 

strife shall cease, 
No longer rent asunder, but dwell in love and 

peace. 



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